Filagree Pendant in the Form of a Frog or Toad by Coclé
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Filagree Pendant in the Form of a Frog or Toad

Coclé · 500–1000

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Lee E. Montgomery, St. Charles, Ill., by 1951 [documentation in curatorial files]; sold to the Art Institute, 1969.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/7966/the-ancient-americas-art-from-sacred-landscapes"><em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em></a>, Oct. 10, 1992–Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 52, as <em>Pendant Depicting Frog</em>; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–April 18, 1993; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 6–Aug. 15, 1993.

Literature

Published references

  • Samuel K. Lothrop, "Jewelry from the Panama Canal Zone," Archaeology 9, 1 (Spring 1956), pg. 40, fig. 7 (ill.).
  • Allen Wardwell, “Some New Acquisitions of Pre-Hispanic Gold,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 67, 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1973), pg. 18, fig. 2 (ill.).
  • Mary W. Helms, Middle America: A Culture History of Heartland and Frontiers (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1975), 113, fig. 7.1
  • Richard Townsend, ed., <em>The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), 376, cat. 52, as <em>Pendant Depicting Frog</em>.
  • Richard Townsend with Elizabeth Pope, <em>Indian Art of the Americas at the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), 263, cat. 209 (ill.).)

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