A COSTA RICAN JADE EFFIGY PENDANT
A COSTA RICAN JADE EFFIGY PENDANT

ATLANTIC WATERSHED REGION, CA. A.D. 1-500

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A COSTA RICAN JADE EFFIGY PENDANT
Atlantic Watershed region, ca. A.D. 1-500
The figurative pendant with well demarcated fingers placed on chest, the wide face with coffee-bean eyes and slightly parted lips, a pair of trophy-heads issuing from the thighs; in blue-green speckled stone with remains of cinnabar, pierced lateraly at the neck.
Height 2 3/8 in. (5.5 cm.)
Provenance
Carlo Gay Collection

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