Description:

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Greater Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, Period IV, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A fabulous pottery jar with 3 hollow legs and a bulbous piriform body painted with anthropomorphic features. The fascinating figure displays a pair of bent arms, each adorned with a scale-like pattern, and an expressive visage comprised of a pair of ovoid eyes, a nubbin nose, a circular mouth as though chanting and a delineated chin. And intricate headdress of geometric patterns decorates the neck of the vessel, while projecting nubs frame the face. This vessel likely served as a ceremonial urn; the emerging smoke adding an eerie ambiance to the vessel's abstract and evocative characteristics. Size: 9.2" Diameter x 11.8" H (23.4 cm x 30 cm)

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-prominent Stanley L. Kaufman collection, before 1993

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#181279

  • Condition: Professionally repaired with adhesive visible along break line and possible areas of light restoration over some break lines. Expected surface wear with nicks, scratches a, and abrasions as shown. A few stable hairline fissures, commensurate with age. Otherwise, excellent presentation and great preservation of pigments.

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