Animal pendant,
1–500 CE

Central Region-Atlantic Watershed

Period IV, 1000 BCE - 500 CE

2016-105

Information

Title

Animal pendant

Dates

1–500 CE

Medium

Jade

Dimensions

3.2 × 2.9 × 0.6 cm (1 1/4 × 1 1/8 × 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Fund

Object Number

2016-105

Place Made

North America, Costa Rica

Culture

Costa Rican

Period

Pre-Columbian Central American styles and periods

Type

pendants (jewelry), jades

Materials

jade

By 1958, Supreme Court Magistrate Maximo Acosta Soto, San José, Costa Rica [1]; 1959, sold to Haig Kurdian, Wichita, KS [2]; 2016, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum.

Notes:
[1] According to correspondence and related documentation in the curatorial file, this object was examined in the summer of 1958 by Kurdian. It was one of a large group of jades, many of which are also in the Princeton University Art Museum collection.

[2] Kurdian acquired this object, included in a group of other jades, following its registration with the National Museum, San José, and the procurement of an official export license, since lost. The entire collection was exhibited at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, from January 1969-March 1969. Five of the works were published in a related exhibition review in the San Diego Union. Copies of all related documentation in the curatorial file.

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Citation

Central Region-Atlantic Watershed, Period IV (1000 BCE - 500 CE), 1–500 CE, Costa Rica, Intermediate area, Animal pendant. Jade; 3.2 × 2.9 × 0.6 cm. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Fund (2016-105) https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/125807

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