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Nose Ornament with Serpents

Nose Ornament with Serpents

Public Domain

Artist
CultureNasca
Titles
  • Nose Ornament with Serpents
Date100 BC–700 AD
PlacePeru
MediumGold
DimensionsOverall: 9 3/4 × 8 7/8 in. (24.8 × 22.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2010.557
Current Location
The Caroline Wiess Law Building
209M Jones Galleries
Exposé

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since at least 1979 [Glassell Album #9, documents reorganization of display at home on November 1979];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010, 2010.557

Similar to lot #20 in Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art Auction, November 19, 1990.

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