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Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
20TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
1 1/2 in. (11 grams, 37 mm).
A hollow-cast pendant in the form of a perching condor or vulture with hooked beak, triple ring suspension at top and single ring to reverse; the eyes, collar, claws, ring to tip of beak and base ornament represented by applied wire detail. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Acquired on the London, UK, art market before 1990.
Property of a gentleman, Kent, UK.
From a private collection, Surrey, UK, since 2013.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
LITERATURE:
See Mitchell, J., The Art of Pre Columbian Gold, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1985, p.110, for similar pendants representing birds of prey.
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