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Ibex Ring

CultureAshanti/Akan
Dateca. 1900
MediumGold
DimensionsOverall: 2 3/4 × 1 1/2 × 7/8 inches (6.99 × 3.81 × 2.22 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.16
On View
Not on view
DescriptionGold ring featuring an ibex standing on a small base situated on top of the ring band. The base and band of the ring are decorated with a braided pattern. The animal appears to be adorned with a decorative harness that runs down its spine and includes four elements, evenly spaced, and hangs over both sides of its barrel (mid-section), beginning at its shoulders and continuing to its haunches. The long horns extend behind its head and turn upwards, with a curving design at their bases that continues about halfway up the length of the horns.Exhibition History

The Mirror Effect: Reflections upon our Realities, Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, May-July, 2017.

<NO_RECORDS>, Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, May 13-July 9th, 2022.

Looking Again, Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, August 4-November 3, 2023.

Provenance

Merton Simpson (1928-2013) collection, New York [1];

Everett Rassiga (1921-2003) collection, New York;

With Economos Works of Art, Santa Fe, NM, by November 2004;

Purchased from Economos Works of Art by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), Santa Fe, NM, November 2004-2010;

His bequest to the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2010-2025;

The Coe Center's gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.

NOTES:

[1] According to object documentation provided by the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts at the time of the object's gift, see Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. Merton Simpson and Everett Rassiga are listed as previous owners. It is not distinguished which collector owned the object before the other or during which period of time they owned it for. It is also unclear if these objects were owned as part of their personal collections or if they were a part of their commercial galleries.

Published References

Oscar Loya, Dynette Chavez, Heaven Talachy, Gailene Morgan, Ashyln Lovato, Danielle Cata, Elizabeth Lukee, and Shante Toledo, The Mirror Effect: Reflections upon our Realities (Santa Fe: Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2017), 13, (repro.).

Himaja Sunkara, Cruz Davis-Martinez, Skyler Hraber, and Tyler Gonzalez, <NO_RECORDS> (Santa Fe: Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2022), 21, (repro.).

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