Unknown Central and South American
Disk Ornament with Figures of a Squatting Human and Double-Headed Serpent

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Disk Ornament with Figures of a Squatting Human and Double-Headed Serpent
Artist
CultureQuimbaya (possibly)
Titles
  • Disk Ornament with Figures of a Squatting Human and Double-Headed Serpent
Date1–800 AD
PlaceColombia
MediumGold
DimensionsOverall: 5 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 1/4 in. (14 × 14 × 0.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2010.780
Non exposé

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
Provenance[David Bernstein, New York]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, by at least 1992–2008 [1]; Estate of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., 2008–2010; given to MFAH, 2010.

[1] Glassell inventory, precedes object described May 22, 1992.

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