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Breastplate with openwork design
Nariño Plateau - Late Period600/1700
Museo del Oro, Bogotá
Bogota, Colombia
The composition of this elegantly hammered, openwork item, follows the principle that opposites are complementary. Two bands of triangular motifs, one stepped and the other straight, are organized into two symmetrical lines, positive and negative
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Details
- Title: Breastplate with openwork design
- Creator: Nariño Plateau - Late Period
- Creator Lifespan: 600/1700
- Creator Nationality: Colombia
- Creator Death Place: Colombia
- Creator Birth Place: Colombia
- Date: 600/1700
- Physical Dimensions: w132 x h159 mm
- Type: Goldwork
- External Link: Cosmology and Symbolism room
- Technique: Hammered gold with openwork
- Finding: Colombia, Nariño, Pupiales
- Accession number: O20099
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