Jewellery & Goldsmiths' Work
Carved Tube
Jewellery
Details
- Author / creator
- Mexico, Oaxaca, Mixtec, 13th-16th century
- Object type
- Jewellery
- Date or period
- c. 1200–1519
- Dimensions summary
- Diameter: 2.6 cm; Overall: 15.1 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Mexico, Oaxaca, Mixtec, 13th-16th century
- Period / style
- Gothic
- Place of origin
- Mexico
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Public appeal (1998), 1949
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
Carved in spiral registers, the ornamentation on this bone tube resembles Mixtec painting, both in codices (screenfold books) and architectural murals.
Materials and technique
Bone
