Veraguas Gold Double Tadpole Pendant ca. A.D. 800-1200

Estimate

2,000 - 4,000 USD

Sold

3,750 USD

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Description

gold

each body of highly rounded form, with broad rimmed mouth, small applied beaded eyes, and joined by the flattened striated legs at the back decorated with diagonal lines.

Provenance

John Wise
Acquired from the above by the present owner's family in 1965

Literature

Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, Archaeology of Southern Veraguas, Panama, Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. IX, 1950, No. 3, Fig. 99a