Description:

**First Time At Auction**

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Narino culture, ca. 850 to 1500 CE. A set of 2 hand-built and highly burnished pottery bowls from ancient Colombia, each with a wide foot to support the broad body. The first bowl is of hemispherical form and displays a band of dark, negative resist motifs along the upper body. The larger vessel has a more uniformly red hue, negative resist motifs surrounding the foot, and areas of fire-darkening along the body's unadorned underside. Size of largest: 6.3" W x 3.9" H (16 cm x 9.9 cm)

Provenance: private Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA collection; ex-private Arkansas, USA collection, via descent in 2021; ex-private Florida estate, USA, acquired from the 1960s to 1970s

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#171671

  • Condition: Each vessel has light abrasions, small spalls, and fading to pigment and negative resist motifs, otherwise intact and very good. Nice remains of pigment in most areas.

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