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Pre-Columbian Style Jadeite and Gold Bead Necklace Pre-Columbian Style Jadeite and Gold Bead Necklace Pre-Columbian Style Jadeite and Gold Bead Necklace
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LOT 2415

Pre-Columbian Style Jadeite and Gold Bead Necklace

EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER

25 1/4 in. (52 grams, 64 cm).

A restrung group of oblate, polyhedral and other beads with interstitial spacer beads and hollow sheet-gold fusiform beads; centrepiece an anthropomorphic pendant in the style of the Chontal culture from Guerrero, West Mexico. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired from older English collections via the UK art market since the mid 1970s.
From the private collection of Peran Dachinger, thence by descent.
From the family collection of a Maida Vale lady, UK.

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LOT 2415

Pre-Columbian Style Jadeite and Gold Bead Necklace

Sold for (Inc. bp): £65

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