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Pre-Columbian, Panama, Gran Cocle, Cubita Period, ca. 550 to 700 CE. A beautiful pedestal bowl with cream slip decorated with purple, red, and black negative painting. This type of bowl, known as a "frutera," has a flared pedestal about half the diameter of the bowl, a long neck between pedestal and bowl, and a brightly-colored surface. Like much of the surviving pottery from this period, this frutera has striking and original artwork: the pedestal and neck have diamond-pattern designs while the interior of the bowl depicts several mythological creatures. By using a bit of imagination and squinting a bit one can see an abstract avian and a mammalian lizard in negative in the top panel with a unknown creature with large downturned mouth, whiskers and feather-like appendages in the lower panel. Drugs may have played a role in the creation of this piece! Size: 8.75" W x 8" H (22.2 cm x 20.3 cm)

Provenance: ex Stein collection, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA, acquired from Haigs of Rochester prior to 2000

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#164318

  • Condition: Base repaired from about 10 pieces, top plate intact and with paint still quite strong.

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