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A Maya jade pendant, Late Classic, ca. A.D. 550-950
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
finely carved in openwork with a kneeling skeletal figure facing right with hands clutched beneath the toothy mouth and wearing a long-beaked bird as headdress; pierced vertically for suspension.
Catalogue Note
Cf. Sotheby's, New York, November 23, 1998, lot 163, for a similar pendant.