Description:

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Tonosi, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A beautiful pottery vase with a round-bottomed globular body and a cylindrical neck that gradually widens to a flared rim. The vessel is beautifully decorated with three panels on the body: one with an eye-like motif and the others with abstract black-painted barbed serpentine creatures. On the neck are four more panels containing eye motifs and mythical creatures. To the ancient Panamanians, these exquisitely painted motifs would have conjured a known mythic or Shamanic being. The black on cream decorative panels are surrounded by vibrant orange-red slip, and cream slip adorns the lower body of the vessel. A lovely vessel! Size: 7.375" in diameter at widest point x 10.875" H (18.7 cm x 27.6 cm)

Provenance: ex-Hilja K. Herfurth collection, Denver, Colorado, USA

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#147254

  • Condition: Expected surface wear with some fading to pigmentation as shown. Nice earthen and mineral deposits across the surface. Inventory numbers on underside of vessel. Lucite display stand for photography purposes only.

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