Description:

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle, ca. 500 to 800 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a charming form depicting a turtle with an enormous conical shell. Presented in hues of russet and dark brown atop a cream ground, the round-bottomed vessel presents with a carinated midsection, a sloped shoulder, and a flared rim that surrounds the mouth. The turtle's head and forelegs poke out from the front of the vessel and protruding from the verse are the hind legs as well as the curved tail. Registers of concentric circles decorate the top of the shoulder beneath a solid red rim, and 4 panels of slender claw motifs decorate the front of the lower body. Size: 6.875" W x 5.875" H (17.5 cm x 14.9 cm)

Cf. The Gilcrease Museum, accession number 54.3445.

Provenance: ex-Estate of Giraud V. Foster, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, before 2001

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#168921

  • Condition: Minor nicks and abrasions to rim, body, protruding turtle elements, and base, with light fading to pigment, otherwise intact and excellent. Great preservation to pigment throughout, and nice craquelure in scattered areas.

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