A Costa Rican Marble Bird Mace Head, Greater Nicoya, Period IV, ca. 300 - 500 CE Jewelry - Beads Gandharan style of Buddhist visual

Gandharan style of Buddhist visual art developed in what is now northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan between the 1st century BC and the 7th century CE

Yirrkala bark painting is finer

Sydney1995 SOFA

Of exceptional quality

A Costa Rican Marble Bird Mace Head, Greater Nicoya, Period IV, ca. 300 - 500 CE Jewelry - Beads Gandharan style of Buddhist visualCarved from smooth white marble, the round body with a stylized bird head featuring an elongated beak gently carved to indicate a mouth and a raised double head crest along the top of the head. Used as a symbolic object rather than a functional one, mace heads of this type occur in many different materials, sizes, and subjects. Found in most high status graves, mace heads most probably served as identifiers of the person's clan or family through a