Disk Pectoral with Crocodile

Disk Pectoral with Crocodile

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Disk Pectoral with Crocodile
CultureCoclé
Titles
  • Disk Pectoral with Crocodile
Date300–1550 AD
PlacePanama
MediumHammered and chased gold
Dimensions6 5/8 × 6 3/4 × 1/2 in. (16.8 × 17.1 × 1.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Object number2001.1194
Not on view

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Department
Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection
Object Type
Provenance(Lot #62 in Sotheby's Pre-Columbian Art Auction, November 26, 1985) ;
Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Collection, Houston, since 1985 [Glassell Album #10, slide dated "NOV 85"];
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2001, 2001.1194

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