The Amy & Elliot Lawrence Collection
The Amy & Elliot Lawrence Collection
Chain Finial with Zoomorphic Imagery, Old Bering Sea I, 100 - 400 AD
Auction Closed
May 24, 03:58 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Chain Finial with Zoomorphic Imagery, Old Bering Sea I, 100 - 400 AD
Length: 4 in (10.2 cm)
Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) ivory
Jeffrey R. Myers, New York
Acquired from the above
Acquired from the above
Lin and Emile Deletaille, eds, Trésors du nouveau monde, Brussels, 1992, p. 103, fig. 10
William W. Fitzhugh, Julie Hollowell, and Aron L. Crowell, eds, Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, Princeton, 2009, p. 216, fig. 14, and p. 302, cat. no. 76
William W. Fitzhugh, Julie Hollowell, and Aron L. Crowell, eds, Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, Princeton, 2009, p. 216, fig. 14, and p. 302, cat. no. 76