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Crown with Plume

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Public Domain

Artist
CultureQuimbaya
Titles
  • Crown with Plume
Date1–800 AD
PlaceColombia
MediumGold
DimensionsOverall (.A, Crown): 3 1/8 × 6 11/16 in. diameter (7.9 × 17 cm)
 Overall (.B, Plume): 6 3/4 × 2 5/8 × 1/16 in. (17.1 × 6.6 × 0.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2010.393.A,.B
Non exposé

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
ProvenanceAlfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, by at least October, 1989–2008 [1]; Estate of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., 2008–2010; given to MFAH, 2010.

[1] Glassell Album # 11, precedes objects purchased on October, 27-28, 1989.

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