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Pre-Columbian, culture of the Guanacaste People

Jade pendant – axe god in the form of a stylised human figure. 600–900 AD

Jade. 12,2 × 3 cm (4 ¾ × 1 ⅛ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork:  Pre-Columbian, culture of the Guanacaste People. Jade pendant – axe god in the form of a stylised human figure. 600–900 AD.

Estimate:

EUR 800

 

- 1,000

USD 854

 

- 1,070

Sold for:

1,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.06.2017

Information

Jade. 12,2 × 3 cm (4 ¾ × 1 ⅛ in.).

Related literature: Claude F. Baudez: Mittelamerika. Geneva 1972, p. 39, plate 24 / Luis Ferrero: Precolombina Costa Rica. San José, 1977, p. 96, p. 139, ill. 129, plate III, IV, XIX / Mariano Cuesta Domingo (ed.): Prehispanic America – Time and Culture (2000 B.C.–1550 A.D.). New York, 1997, p. 105–107 .

Circa 1963 collection Evelyn D. De Goicoechea, San José / circa 1970 collection Marc Perc-Peretz (1918–1999), Saarbruecken, Honorary Consel of Costa Rica / private collection, southern Germany

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