Lime Container (Poporo) Lid

CultureQuimbaya
Titles
  • Lime Container (Poporo) Lid
Date1–800 AD
PlaceColombia
MediumGold
DimensionsOverall: 4 1/8 × 2 5/16 in. (10.5 × 5.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2010.852.A,.B
Non exposé

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Object Type
Provenance(Sotheby's NY 11.23.1992, Lot #46);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010, 2010.852.A,.B

(A similar example sold at Sotheby's NY 11.23.1998, Lot #64.)
(Another sold at Christie's Paris 12.8.2004, Lot #355.)

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assembled
1–800 AD
Gold
2010.853.A-.C
looking right
650–900 AD
Wood, shells, stone, and cotton twine
2001.1161
looking right
650–900 AD
Wood, shells, stone, and cotton twine
2001.1160.A,.B
front of object
200–1600 AD
Gold
2001.1050
front of object
200–1600 AD
Gold
2001.1045.A,.B
Poporo Lid
200–1600 AD
Gold
2004.2481
Shell Pendant with Deity
100 BC–700 AD
Spondylus, turquoise, purple mussel, gold, resin, cotton cord
2010.981
Lime Container
200–1600 AD
Gold
2001.1230
overall view of object
200–1600 AD
Gold
2001.1049
Lime Container and Finial with Stopper and Beaded Chain
200–1600 AD
Gold, gourd, and brass
2002.4292.A,.B
front of object
650–900 AD
Wood
2010.848