Incised celt Artist: Unknown

900–400 B.C.

Art of the Ancient Americas

Not on view
Medium

Jadeite with albite and muscovite

Dimensions

4 5/16 × 2 in. (11 × 5.1 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen

Accession Number

1959.55.7

Geography

Mexico

Culture

Mexico, Olmec, Central Mexico or Gulf Coast

Period

Middle Formative Period

Classification

Ritual Objects

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Provenance
Alfred Stendahl (1915–2010), Los Angeles, by 1958; Florence Quittenton Olsen (died 1996) and Frederick H. Olsen (1891–1986), Guilford, Conn., 1958; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1959
Bibliography
  • George A. Kubler, ed., Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 60, 224, no. 86, fig. 44
  • Alana Cordy-Collins and Henry B. Nicholson, Pre-Columbian Art from the Land Collection, exh. cat. (San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1979),
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

celts, ceremonial objects

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