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A RARE SOUTH AMERICAN GIRDLE
Composed of fourteen strands of cylindrical brown beads with some white beads, suspending large cluster of mussel shell pendants, many with incised geometric ornament
The shell cluster 35.5cm. long
Composed of fourteen strands of cylindrical brown beads with some white beads, suspending large cluster of mussel shell pendants, many with incised geometric ornament
The shell cluster 35.5cm. long
Provenance
James Hooper, no. 962
Literature
Phelps, S., Art and Artefacts of The Pacific, Africa and the Americas, the James Hooper Collection, London, 1976, p.215, Pl.123
Special notice
Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20.825% of the hammer price for lots with values up to NLG 200,000. If the hammer price exceeds the NLG 200,000 then the premium is calculated at 20.825% of the first NLG 200,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of NLG 200,000.