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PROPERTY FROM THE G.A.H. BUISMAN JNZ. COLLECTION
MAYAN JADE PENDANT
LATE CLASSIC, CA. A.D. 550 - 950
Details
MAYAN JADE PENDANT
LATE CLASSIC, ca. A.D. 550 - 950
carved with a standing dignitary of robust proportions with arms held at the waist and hands cupped in a ritual gesture, striated hair at the back wearing loincloth and jade jewelry; in shaded apple green, pierced laterally for suspension.
Height 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm.)
LATE CLASSIC, ca. A.D. 550 - 950
carved with a standing dignitary of robust proportions with arms held at the waist and hands cupped in a ritual gesture, striated hair at the back wearing loincloth and jade jewelry; in shaded apple green, pierced laterally for suspension.
Height 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm.)
Provenance
William O'Boyle Collection
Exhibited
Coral Gables, Pre-Columbian Art from Mesoamerican and Ecuador, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, October 9 - November 30, 1980, fig. 47, illus.
Williamstown, The Art of Mesoamerica: Before Columbus, Williams College Museum of Art, September 26 - June 20, 1993.
Geneva, Sun Kingdoms of the Americas, Library of the Palais des Nations, March 12 - May 31, 2001.
Amsterdam, Sun Kingdoms of the Americas, Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis, May - June, 2002.
Williamstown, The Art of Mesoamerica: Before Columbus, Williams College Museum of Art, September 26 - June 20, 1993.
Geneva, Sun Kingdoms of the Americas, Library of the Palais des Nations, March 12 - May 31, 2001.
Amsterdam, Sun Kingdoms of the Americas, Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen Huis, May - June, 2002.