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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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