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Irregular discoidal bead

200 B.C.–700 A.D.
Object PlaceCosta Rica
Medium/TechniquePossibly jadatite
DimensionsOverall: 0.3 × 1.1 × 1 cm (1/8 × 7/16 × 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Leslie S. Feron Trust
Accession number2017.4309
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment
Collections
ProvenanceBetween 1934 and 1945, acquired in Costa Rica by Louis Féron (b. 1901 – d. 1998), Costa Rica and New York; 1998, by inheritance to his widow, Leslie Snow Féron (b. 1926 – d. 2017), New Hampshire; 2017, bequest of Leslie Snow Féron to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)
200 B.C.–800 A.D.
200 B.C.–700 A.D.
200 B.C.–800 A.D.
200 B.C.–800 A.D.
200 B.C.–1520 A.D.
Brooch
Edward Everett Oakes
about 1925
Pair of earrings
Zack Peabody
late 20th century
Cabinet
Herter Brothers
about 1880
Sentinel bookends (one of a pair)
Walter von Nessen
designed 1940, manufactured about 1941–1942
Sentinel bookends (one of a pair)
Walter von Nessen
designed 1940; manufactured about 1941-1942
Spring
Arthur Garfield Dove
1943