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Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle, Macaracas style, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. A beautiful, hand-built pottery pedestal plate with a broad foot and a tapered pedestal neck surmounted by a shallow dish with a thick rim. The orange-slipped vessel features a black-and-red program along the pedestal and dish underside with abstract pointed forms beneath the dish, broad diamonds and trapezoids on the foot and pedestal, and red rings and stripes interspersed. The basin surface adds in a fourth color - purple - to accentuate the highly abstract saurian figure presented in the center that has bulging eyes above a narrow mouth, bent arms with clawed fingers, delineated feet with lengthy toes, and serrated stingray barbs projecting from its body. An interesting and highly perplexing example of Cocle figural iconography. Size: 9.375" W x 8.125" H (23.8 cm x 20.6 cm)

Provenance: ex Stein collection, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA, acquired prior to 2010; ex William Micol collection, ,ilford, Michigan, USA

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#164309

  • Condition: Repaired from about 15 pieces, with restoration over the break areas. Nice remains of pigment.

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