id:			172387
accession number:	2015.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.1
updated:		2023-01-11 23:01:38.654000

Figural Pendant, AD 1–800. Isthmian Region (Colombia), Tolima, 1st-8th century. Gold, cast and hammered; overall: 29.4 x 16.2 x 1 cm (11 9/16 x 6 3/8 x 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2015.1

title:				Figural Pendant
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creation date:			AD 1–800
creation date earliest:		1
creation date latest:		800
current location:		233 Mesoamerican and Intermediate Region
creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Isthmian Region (Colombia), Tolima, 1st-8th century
technique:	gold, cast and hammered
department:	Art of the Americas
collection:	AA - Intermediate Region
type:		Metalwork
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 29.4 x 16.2 x 1 cm (11 9/16 x 6 3/8 x 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(John Wise, New York, NY, sold to an American private collector)
	date: ?-1969
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	American Private Collector
	date: 1969-1979
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	American Private Collector by inheritance, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1979-2015
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2015-
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fun fact:
Pendants in the form of figures with X-shaped bodies are an iconic Tolima type.

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wall description:
Colombia's Tolima region is justly famous for arrestingly abstracted figures like this one, among the largest of its kind. Such figures, worn as necklace pendants by chiefs and other elites, seem to be based on the human form. But they also incorporate animal features, often an upturned, bifurcated tail sometimes compared to that of a serpent and large, angled head appendages that may refer to animal ears or even insect antennae.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 82-83
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IMAGES

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