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A RARE PENDANT IN THE FORM A THREE-HEADED BEAST, SA HUYNH CULTURE, 5TH CENTURY BC-2ND CENTURY AD

A RARE PENDANT IN THE FORM A THREE-HEADED BEAST, SA HUYNH CULTURE, 5TH CENTURY BC-2ND CENTURY AD Vietnam. Well carved with three animal heads, each with two long horns and neatly incised eyes and mouth, rising from a single triangular body pierced through the center for suspension. The opaque material, probably bone, is of a creamy-white tone from extensive calcification. Provenance: From the collection of Paolo Bertuzzi. Paolo Bertuzzi (1943-2022) was a fashion stylist from Bologna, Italy. He was the son of Enrichetta Bertuzzi, founder of Hettabretz, a noted Italian fashion company with customers such as the Rothschild family, Audrey Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor. Paolo Bertuzzi later took over his mother’s business and designed exclusive pieces, some of which were exhibited in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, USA. He was also an avid collector of antiques for more than 60 years. His collection includes both archaic and contemporary art, and he edited two important books about Asian art, Goa Made - An Archaeological Discovery, about a large-scale archaeological project carried out with the Italian and Indonesian governments, and Majapahit, Masterpieces from a Forgotten Kingdom. Condition: Very good condition, commensurate with age. Wear, calcification, encrustations, few tiny nicks, a minuscule old repair. Weight: 41.3 g Dimensions: Width 6.8 cm The Sa Huỳnh culture was a culture in what is now central and southern Vietnam that flourished between 1000 BC and 200 AD. Archaeological sites from the culture have been discovered from the Mekong Delta to Quang Binh province in central Vietnam. The Sa Huynh people were most likely the predecessors of the Cham people, an Austronesian-speaking people and the founders of the kingdom of Champa. The Sa Huỳnh culture cremated adults and buried them in jars covered with lids, a practice unique to the culture. Ritually broken offerings usually accompanied the jar burials. The culture is also typified by its unique ear ornaments featuring multi-headed animals, believed by some to depict saola. Literature comparison: Compare a closely related Vietnamese jade ear ornament with similar zoomorphic heads, 4.1 cm wide, dated 5th century BC to 2nd century AD, in the Ashmolean Museum, accession number EA1996.90. Compare two closely related Sa Huỳnh stone earrings, 3 and 5 cm wide, dated 5th-1st century BC, in the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, accession numbers 2007-56434 and 2007-56433.

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A RARE PENDANT IN THE FORM A THREE-HEADED BEAST, SA HUYNH CULTURE, 5TH CENTURY BC-2ND CENTURY AD

Estimate 400 - 800 EUR
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