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Costa Rican Jade Figural Celt - Man or Monkey
Costa Rican Jade Figural Celt - Man or Monkey
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**First Time At Auction**

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste-Nicoya, ca. 200 to 600 CE. An endearing seafoam green jade axe god carved to represent an abstract human or possibly simian form. String cut and drilled features including drilled eyes and teeth, a striated headdress, and hands meeting at waist; drilled laterally for suspension. Size: 4.125" H (10.5 cm)

Provenance: private Healy collection, Studio City, California, USA, acquired over the last twenty years

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Condition
Minor surface wear. Nice root marks. Old Arte Primitivo label on verso (2634-11).
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