Wing Oyster Pendant | Yale University Art Gallery

900–400 B.C.

On view, 1st floor, Art of the Ancient Americas

Medium: Jadeite
Dimensions: 3.18 × 14.29 × 78 cm (1 1/4 × 5 5/8 × 30 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil 1974
Accession Number: 2015.1.8
Geography: Guatemala, or Mexico
Culture: Mexico or Guatemala, Olmec
Period: Middle Formative Period
Classification: Jewelry
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Provenance

Acquired in the early 2000s
Ex-collection Samuel Dubiner, Tel Aviv

Bibliography

Sotheby's France, Paris, Le Soleil de Nuit : Trésors Précolombiens d‘une Grande Collection Française, sale cat. (October 30, 2019), 18, lot 1, ill.

"Acquisitions 2015," http://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2015_updated%2012_16_15.pdf (accessed December 1, 2015).

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

pendants (jewelry), utilitarian objects

jewelry

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