Pair of Disks

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CultureUnknown culture

Titles

Pair of Disks

Date1000 BC–1600 AD

MediumGold

Dimensions.1: 3 3/16 in. diameter (8.1 cm)
.2: 3 5/8 in. diameter (9.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2002.4443.1,.2

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

METALWORK

ProvenanceThe Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.; [Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, May 12, 1979, Sale 4246 Fine Pre-Columbian Art and Colonial Paintings of Latin America, Lot 82]; purchased by Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. (1913–2008), Houston, May 12, 1979–2002 [1]; given to MFAH, 2002.

[1] Glassell Inventory.

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