Description:

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Manabi Province, Guangala culture, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. A lovely duo of hand-built terracotta bowls, both depicting a repeating abstract avian motif. Each bowl has rolling walls and shallow interior cavities, with one having a flat base and a wide rim, and the other a rounded base and a splayed rim. The wide-mouthed bowl depicts a trio of abstract zoomorphic figures with sinuous short-legged bodies, serpentine tails with frilled tips, and heads with large concentric ringed eyes and jagged teeth. The smaller-mouthed bowl depicts a quartet of similar creatures, though their necks are craned skyward and their faces do not display jagged teeth. Each animal is created via the negative space within a densely-incised crosshatch-style ground. Colored in hues of caramel and espresso, this is a wonderful group from ancient Ecuador! Size of largest (wide mouth): 4.25" W x 2.25" H (10.8 cm x 5.7 cm).

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-The Lands Beyond, New York, New York, USA

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  • Condition: Both bowls have age-commensurate surface wear and abrasions as expected, light fading to coloration and incised designs, and some surface roughness, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits throughout.

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