Celt Pendant | Yale University Art Gallery

900–400 B.C.

Not on view

Medium: Jadeite with albite and muscovite
Dimensions: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr and Mrs Fred Olsen
Accession Number: 1961.43.5
Geography: Mexico
Culture: Mexico, Olmec
Period: Middle Formative Period
Classification: Jewelry
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Provenance

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1961 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 60, 224, no. 85, fig. 43

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

nonrepresentational art, pendants (jewelry)

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