80C. Precolumbian cup with zoomorphic foot, decorated with 3 jaguars, Guanacaste-Nicoya culture, cca. 1000 - 1500 AD.
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80C. Precolumbian cup with zoomorphic foot, decorated with 3 jaguars, Guanacaste-Nicoya culture, cca. 1000 - 1500 AD.
References
Pre-Columbian arts from | Central America in the collections of the Barbier - Mueller Museum in Barcelona: Nicaragua; 2001; p. 205; cat. 30
7 x 15 cm
Research information
The object was exhibited at the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Barcelona and was reproduced in "Pre-Columbian arts of Central America in the collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Barcelona: Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama", 2001, cat. 30, p. 205.
PROVENANCE
Motte Gallery, Geneva, 1956 Barbier-Mueller Collection, Geneva, Inv. n° 521-52 Sotheby's Auction, France, 22.03.2013, lot 61
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