Disk Ornament with Figures of a Squatting Human and Double-Headed Serpent

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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

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Department

Art of the Indigenous Americas, Glassell Collection

Object Type

METALWORK

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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