Strap Necklace with Beechnut Pendants, Greece, circa 4th century BC. Gold. Length 31.8 cm (12.5 in.). © The Merrin Gallery, Inc. at TEFAF Maastricht 2019, Stand 430.

Provenance: Private collection, New York acquired in the 1980s.

Copan Style Pendant in the form of a Standing Maya Lord, Maya, Honduras, 600-900 AD. Royal apple green jade with traces of cinnabar. Height 10 cm (4 in.). © The Merrin Gallery, Inc. at TEFAF Maastricht 2019, Stand 430.

Provenance: Edward H. Merrin, New York, 1968; The Merrin Gallery, Inc., New York, 1989; Barbier-Mueller Collection, Geneva, Inv. no. 502-26.

Literature: Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller & Carmen Fauria, A Guide to Pre-Columbian Art, Barcelona, 1997, p. 39, ill. 24 
Laurence Mattet & Renato Caprini, Man's Jewelry: Barbier-Mueller Museum Collections. Jewels of the Earth: Alexis Barbier-Mueller collection, Geneva, 2009, cat. 5, p. 35 
Octavio Paz, Michel Butor, Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller, et al., Millennium Art of the Americas: From Discovery to Admiration, 1492-1992, Paris, 1992, plate 40, p. 235 
Octavio Paz & Jean Paul Barbier, Ritual Arts of the New World: Pre-Columbian America, Geneva, 2000, cat. 40, p. 273 
Barbier-Mueller Museum, Precolumbian Art: The Barbier-Mueller Collection, Milan, 2013, p. 150, ill. 103.

TEFAF March 16-24, 2019 Maastricht, Stand 430.