Description:

Pre-Columbian, Argentina, Catamarca region, Belen culture, ca. 1200 to 1476 CE. A hand-built earthenware jar of a sizable form with a narrow, concave base, a carinated midsection with a pair of ring handles, a sloped shoulder with a pair of protruding nodules, and a flared rim surrounding the deep interior basin. The iron-oxide-hued vessel bears ample black-painted decorations including groups of vertical lines inside the rim, zigzagging columns leading towards the base, and cresting wave-form motifs around the shoulder. Size: 9.6" W x 8.75" H (24.4 cm x 22.2 cm)

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-Arte Primitivo, New York, USA; ex-collection of Imre and Nicholas T. Molnar, acquired between 1960-1978, by descent

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#150798

  • Condition: Nicks and abrasions to base, body, handles, and rim, with fading to original pigmentation, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits and nice traces of original pigment throughout.

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