Description:

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Chorotega culture, ca. 1100 to 1200 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery jar of sizable form with a spherical body displayed atop a flared foot. A pair of enormous, abstract serpentine creatures crawl across the surface with huge, gaping jaws and densely scaled bodies. Around the rim is a register of pyramidal and stepped motifs, and around the base of the foot is a series of inversely corresponding triangles. Very little is known of the Pre-Columbian Chorotega, who did not leave behind many ruins. They were roughly contemporaneous with the Maya, and, together with the Chibcha people of Colombia, formed a cultural link between the peoples of the Andes and the peoples of Mexico. Size: 8.12" Diameter x 9.2" H (20.6 cm x 23.4 cm)

Provenance: Private Reinsmoen collection, Clear Lake, Iowa, acquired through descent from Robert Anderson, acquired prior to 2000; ex-Gary Seiver collection, Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA, purchased June 18, 1981; ex-Peter Natan Gallery

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#185139

  • Condition: Professional repair and restoration to parts of body and foot, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Abrasions and fading to pigment, with light earthen deposits, and small nicks in scattered areas, otherwise in nice condition. Great preservation to original motifs.

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