Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Auction Closed
May 13, 08:41 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Jan Mitchell
TOLIMA GOLD FIGURAL PENDANT CIRCA AD 500-1000
Height: 2 ½ in (6.4 cm)
Jan Mitchell, New York, acquired prior to 1969
Thence by family descent
PUBLISHED
Julie Jones, Precolumbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections, New York, 1969, unpaginated, cat. no. 158
The Hermitage Museum of Art, Zoloto dokolumbovoi Ameriki, katalog vystaki (exhibition catalogue, loan from The Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Ministry of Culture, USSR) Soviet Artist, Leningrad, 1976, cat. no. 87, illus.
Julie Jones, Heidi King, The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection, New York, 1985, pp. 160-1, cat. no. 39
The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, Precolumbian Art in New York: Selections from Private Collections, September 12-November 9, 1969
The Hermitage Museum of Art, Zoloto dokolumbovoi Ameriki, Leningrad, 1976
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Art of Precolumbian Gold: The Jan Mitchell Collection, New York, May 9-August 11, 1985