Auction: June 13, 2021

Lot #147: Pre-Columbian Jadeite Jade and Spondylus Bead Assortment

Including 3.125-inch, 2.875-inch and 2.75-inch jadeite jade tube beads; 2.75-inch pale green onyx undrilled lunate pendant; bracelet made up of (6) mixed jadeite jade and green stone beads with a pendant; over (40) mixed jadeite jade / stone beads; a 3.50-inch spondylus shell pendant; a 3.25-inch spondylus curved tube bead; (7) spondylus tube bead fragments; (3) spondylus shell beads; necklace comprised of a clay figurine pendant with (14) mixed beads; a burnished clay conch shell effigy pendant; a clay lizard shaped pendant; bi-conically drilled slate gorget, probably North American; Mayan style knapped flint eccentric, mounted as a pendant; together with chert lance and arrow heads; (4) carved stone faces from Mezcala and elsewhere; a stone figurine; green stone figurine fragment; a ceramic straight pipe having an applied zoomorphic effigy; together with multi-cultural artifact assortment of (20) items including an Islamic Kashan style green-glazed ceramic bowl on an unglazed foot ring having a lustrous iridescence, assembled from fragments; a Central American stone figurine; a broken Mezcala "axe god"; (2) Inuit carved whalebone faces and (5) weakly carved or uncarved whalebone pieces; an unidentified tribal carved wood figurine; copper alloy items including a ring and ornament, depiction of a deity and consort from tribal India, (2) West African gold weights, an African pendant in the form of copulating chameleons and a broken pendant

Approximate Shipping Weight:

8 pounds