Lot 115
Pre-Columbian, southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec culture, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A hand-built pottery bowl with thick walls incised with abstract linear and crosshatched motifs. The squat bowl rests upon a planar base and features highly burnished walls decorated with brown pigment in hues of chocolate and espresso. The panel of incised motifs features four columnar projections beneath a broad rectangular area and is further embellished with a large 'X' on one side. Olmec pottery was often created to give power to the shaman or ruler- the clay was coaxed into meaningful forms which imbued the substances or liquids they held with power. Such vessels could be used to aid special persons to attain the power to cross into other realms. Size: 4" W x 2.55" H (10.2 cm x 6.5 cm)
For a similar example and more information about Olmec blackware, please see the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website, accession number: 2014.244.8.
Provenance: private Hidden Valley Lake, California, USA collection, purchased on September 2, 2020; ex-Artemis Gallery; ex-private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private T. Misenhimer collection, Beverly Hills, California, USA, collected from 1970 to 2008
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#170475
- Condition: Repairs to a few areas of walls, with nearly invisible resurfacing and overpainting along break lines. Minor abrasions to base, walls, and rim, with light fading to brown pigment. Nice remains of incised details across obverse.
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