Pectoral plaque with figure
Pectoral plaque with figure

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Art of the Ancient Americas

Pectoral plaque with figure,

700–1200

Greater Coclé (Macaracas style)
Macaracas (late Coclé)
2019-253

Information

Title
Pectoral plaque with figure
Dates

700–1200

Medium
Gold-copper alloy
Dimensions
12.4 × 12.7 cm (4 7/8 × 5 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Fund
Object Number
2019-253
Place Made

North America, Panama

Culture
Coclé
Period
Macaracas
Type
plaques
Materials
gold
Subject
figures (representations), serpents

By April 1966, Robert Sonin (1925-2011), New York [1]; 2011, by descent to private collection, New York [2]; 2019, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum.

Notes:
[1] According to a dated slide in the Robert Sonin archive, Princeton University Art Museum.
[2] According to private collection, New York.

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