Lot 241
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A Mixtec Copper Bell and Jade Bead Necklace, Late Preclassic/Post Classic, ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 1200

Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 USD
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Description

composed of forty globular light green jade beads, Guerrero or possibly Olmec, and a single disc bead, strung as a necklace to a large copper bell pendant cast with zigzag designs against the banded ground, with twisted bands trimming the opening; clapper within missing.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Robins, Jr.
Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, No. 61:11.2, gift from the above, 1961

Literature

 Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, New York, 1979, p. 136