Spoon Pendant

900–400 B.C.

Jadeite

3.18 × 14.29 × 78 cm (1 1/4 × 5 5/8 × 30 11/16 in.)

Gift of Peter David Joralemon, B.A. 1969, M.Phil 1974

2015.1.8

Geography:

Made in Guatemala

or made in Mexico

Status:

On view

Culture:

Mexico or Guatemala, Olmec

Period:

Middle Formative Period

Classification:

Sculpture

Provenance:

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

Bibliography:

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

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

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.