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TWELVE MORE MIXTEC PENATE PENDANTS: EX HOWARD browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Americas:Pre Columbian:Stone: Pre 1492: item # 461178 Please refer to our stock # PENATES.B when inquiring.
HD ENTERPRISES, INC. PO Box 22082 Denver, CO 80222 303-695-1301 Guest Book SORRY...ALL OF THESE ITEMS HAVE SOLD. |
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| Here are twelve more individually priced Pre-Columbian stone figural pendants, known as ‘penates’ for their prayer-like pose, taken from a frame assembled by the late Chester Howard. Howard, founder of the Colorado Mineralogical Society in 1936, collected the penates in Mexico in the mid-20th century. The pieces in this group (TEH.F51.2, 8, 10, 19, 23, 25, 29, 33, 37, 40, 43 and 49), worn for protective purpose in Pre-Columbian days, include one stylized owl pendant. From Mitla and attributed to the Post Classic Mixtec dating c.1100-1500AD, the pendants are in overall very good condition and range in grade from 8 to 9. The pendants were mostly made from a relatively soft stone that appears to be the crystalline evaporite anhydrite. Though all were originally drilled for suspension, subsequent weathering and condition of the stone makes it risky to suspend the pendants without first adding additional support (perhaps a spot of epoxy in the hole to fix a thin gold or silver ring). Each photo shows front and back of a different pendant with a standard ruler on the left side for scale. The inventory number appears in brackets, followed by a grade value, the type of stone, and then a comment about the bale formed by the small bridge of stone between the two angled, bow-drilled holes. Below follows a brief description of condition, and finally the price of the illustrated piece. Select or ask any question by referring first to the Trocadero Item Number on this page, and then to our Inventory Number shown on the given photograph. We’re pleased to announce that we’ll additionally be handling many more diverse items from this great collection including: Native American textiles, beadwork, pottery; Pre-Columbian pottery, artifacts, beads, figurines; some 350 Hacienda tokens; a great assortment of picturesque and decorative artifact frames that Howard had professionally constructed to house many of his treasures; and much more. Each penate purchased from this page comes with a small display card, a biographical write-up about Chester Howard, and our certificate guaranteeing authenticity. NOTE: if you would like to view a large number of our various listings, and at the same time limit your browsing time, try our ‘TWELVE different items on a single page format’ by simply spelling out the word TWELVE in the search box. That will quickly bring up all of our listings that have twelve different items on a page, each individually priced and available! Any item that has been sold will be so noted on its photograph. | |||||||||||||||
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