La Collection Deletaille
Tolima Gold Necklace
Circa AD 500-1000
Lot closes
December 10, 03:19 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 EUR
Starting Bid
13,000 EUR
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La Collection Deletaille
Tolima Gold Necklace
Circa AD 500-1000
Length overall: 15 ⅞ in (40 cm)
Height range of pendants: ⅞ in to 1 ⅜ in (2.2 to 3.5 cm)
Emile Deletaille, Brussels, acquired in the 1980s
Thence by descent
Composed of fifteen cast and hammered, graduated, and highly stylized anthropomorphic figures, interspersed with spherical and tubular beads and strung as a necklace.
The Tolima peoples of Colombia's Magdalena Valley produced distinctive gold objects and figural pendants that had a high degree of consistency over a considerable period of time. These objects are renowned for their abstract minimal style dominated by its geometric symmetry.
For similar pendants, see Warwick Bray, The Gold of Eldorado, London, 1978, fig. 464.
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