Lot
363a
Jade pendant – long axe God with highly stylised face, grooved headdress and wedge-shaped nose (Linea Vieja). 600–900 AD
Estimate:
EUR 800
- 1,000
USD 942
- 1,180
Sold for:
1,375 EUR (incl. premium)
Autumn Auctions 2017
ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 30.11.2017
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.
Collection Evelyn D. de Goicoechea, San José (circa 1963) / collection of the Honorary Consul of Costa Rica, Marc Perc-Peretz (1918–1999), Saarbruecken, (acquired circa 1970 directly in Costa Rica) / private collection, Saarland (acquired 1999 directly from the estate Peretz)
Supplement to the provenance: letter about the collection Goicoechea by Héctor Gamboa, Head of Department of the National Museum of Costa Rica, typewritten, photo with several jade pendants, circa 1965
Lot
209a
Jade pendant - axe god in the form of a strongly-stylised human figure (Linea Vieja). 1200–600 BC
Estimate:
EUR 2,000
- 3,000
Sold for:
EUR 4,375
Lot
209b
Jade pendant - axe god in the form of a strongly-stylised human figure (Linea Vieja). 1200-600 BC
Estimate:
EUR 800
- 1,000
Sold for:
EUR 1,500
Lot
209c
Jade pendant - axe god in the form of a stylised human figure (Linea Vieja). 1200–600 BC
Estimate:
EUR 800
- 1,000
Sold for:
EUR 1,250
Lot
209d
Jade pendant in the form of a crouching creature with the head of a parrot, its eye pierced through (so-called beak bird). 1200–600 BC
Estimate:
EUR 3,000
- 4,000
Sold for:
EUR 5,000
Lot
209e
Jade pendant – axe god in the form of a stylised human figure. 600–900 AD
Estimate:
EUR 800
- 1,000
Sold for:
EUR 1,000
Lot
209f
Jade pendant in the form of a bat with wings spread, the ends of which with aligator heads, their mouths open. 600–900 AD
Estimate:
EUR 3,000
- 4,000
Sold for:
EUR 5,000
Lot
209g
Jade pendant in the form of a bat with its wings spread, the ends of which with aligator heads, their mouths closed (Nicoya). 600–900 AD
Estimate:
EUR 2,000
- 3,000
Sold for:
EUR 4,000
Lot
209h
Zoomorphic jade pendant in the form of a man with the head of a jaguar or an ape, holding an axe. 500–800 AD
Estimate:
EUR 3,000
- 4,000
Sold for:
EUR 5,000
Lot
363b
Jade pendant – long axe God, curved at the bottom with highly stylised face and wedge-shaped nose, drilled eye sockets, hands folded across the stomach (Linea Vieja). 600–900 AD
Estimate:
EUR 800
- 1,000
Sold for:
EUR 1,375
Lot
363c
Jade pendant – long axe God, face laid across the body. 1200 c. Chr. –600 AD
Estimate:
EUR 800
- 1,000
Sold for:
EUR 1,375
Lot
363d
Jade pendant – shaped like a highly stylised person with short legs, hands folded across the stomach. 500–1000 AD
Estimate:
EUR 3,000
- 5,000
Sold for:
EUR 5,000
Lot
363g
Jade pendant – long axe God. 600–900 AD
Estimate:
EUR 1,200
- 1,500
Sold for:
EUR 1,500
Lot
363h
Jade pendant – oval axe God shaped like a highly stylised person. 600–1200 AD
Estimate:
EUR 1,000
- 1,200
Sold for:
EUR 1,250
Lot
363i
Jade pendant – big oval axe God shaped like a highly stylised person. 600–1200 AD
Estimate:
EUR 2,000
- 3,000
Sold for:
EUR 2,500