Description:

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec culture, ca. 1150 to 550 BCE. A wonderful face bead of a petite form, hand-carved from mottled white stone with opaque white streaks coursing throughout. The face displays characteristic Olmec features such as drilled ovoid eyes, a broad nose with delineated nostrils, pouty upturned lips, puffy cheeks, and tab-shaped ears, all beneath a rounded forehead. Faint traces of applied red cinnabar accents are visible across the obverse side and provide for a wonderful chromatic contrast against the cream-hued stone. A biconically-drilled suspension hole is situated atop the brow and enables the pendant to be worn on a necklace. Modern necklace strand included. Size (pendant): 1.2" W x 1.1" H (3 cm x 2.8 cm); size (necklace): 22" L (55.9 cm).

Provenance: ex-private Miami, Florida, USA collection, acquired in 1980

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#146664

  • Condition: Strung in modern times and wearable as shown. Stone pendant is ancient, and necklace strand is modern. Repaired from two large pieces atop the head. Minor abrasions to obverse, peripheries, and reverse, with fading to red cinnabar accents, and light softening to some carved details. Light earthen deposits throughout.

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