Pair of Ear Ornaments with Composite Animal Finials

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Pair of Ear Ornaments with Composite Animal Finials

Date500–1550 AD

PlaceColombia

MediumGold

DimensionsEach: 1 3/4 × 2 × 1/16 in. (4.4 × 5.1 × 0.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.

Object number2010.355.1,.2

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

METALWORK

Provenance(Sotheby's NY, 5.12-13.1983, lot #341);
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since at least 1983 [Glassell Album # 10, slide dated "MAY 1983"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010, 2010.355.1

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