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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Pre-Columbian pin, Probably Colombia, Calima, 500-1500AD
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Pre-Columbian pin, Probably Colombia, Calima, 500-1500AD
Pre-Columbian pin, Probably Colombia, Calima, 500-1500AD
Gold
Length: 18cm
10824
Charles Ede, London
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1) Pre-Columbian pin, Probably Colombia, Calima, 500-1500AD
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Solid gold pin of elongated trumpet form, the thin shaft tapering to a fine point at one end and widening to a flattened circular terminal at the other. Intact but...
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Solid gold pin of elongated trumpet form, the thin shaft tapering to a fine point at one end and widening to a flattened circular terminal at the other. Intact but the shaft now curved.

A most elegant article of jewellery, with a pared back restraint. This could have been used as either a pin for the hair or for clothing. Cast by the cire-perdue technique.
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Provenance

Carl Kempe (1884-1967), Ekolsund Castle, Sweden; acquired 1950-1967, collection no.CK25

Literature

For an example from Calima, Colombia, with the same proportions compare Hugh Tait ed., Seven Thousand Years of Jewellery (London, 1986), p.133, fig.300
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