On view
Art of the Ancient Americas
Eagle pendant,
1000–1500
Veraguas (Greater Chiriquí)
Diquís style
2022-25
Information
Title
Eagle pendant
Dates
1000–1500
Medium
Tumbaga (gold-copper alloy)
Dimensions
7.5 × 8.5 × 2.2 cm (2 15/16 × 3 3/8 × 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr. Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
2022-25
Place Made
North America, Costa Rica or Panama
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
By August 1959, Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), London [1]. 1963 until between 1989-1996, Dr. Carlo Monzino (1931-1996), Castagnola. July 30, 2021, Hammer Aktionen, Basel, lot 35, sold to a private New York collector [2]. 2021, David Bernstein Fine Art, New York; 2021, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Notes:
[1] Epstein died at this time. The work was included in the 1960 exhibition and catalogue The Epstein Collection of Tribal and Exotic Sculpture (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1960), cat. no. 222.
[2] According to African, Tribal, Oceanic, Asian, Ancient Art (Basel: Hammer Auktionen, 2021), lot 35.
