Description:

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Middle Cauca, culture undetermined, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An enormous redware cylinder, its exterior walls incised with two registers of repeated nested rectangles, some with segmented central forms, one end with four pairs of double perforations and a flat rim. Although these carved squarish/rectangular geometric designs might lead one to identify the piece as Sinu, its slip is not characteristic of Sinu ceramics. According to a scholar who collaborated on Armand Labbe's "Colombia Before Columbus: The People, Culture, and Ceramic Art of Prehispanic Colombia" pieces like this have only been attributed to the Middle Cauca region, culture undetermined, and they are incredibly rare. Other than a few examples in private US collections, he knows of only one other similar example that is currently in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A mesmerizing vessel, intriguingly similar in form to a roller stamp, only of a much larger scale. Size: 10" in diameter x 26" H (25.4 cm x 66 cm)

Provenance: Ex-Vaught Collection, Atlanta, GA

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#120741

  • Condition: Repaired from several large pieces and minor surface wear commensurate with age. Probably once had a lid. Such lids were flat, disk-like forms with no taper toward the edges and corresponding pairs of double perforations to those at the upper end of the vessel.

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