Lot 66A
Pre-Columbian Pottery Group, 4 Pieces
Pre-Columbian Pottery Group, 4 Pieces
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Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Bahia, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE; Jama-Coaque, ca. 350 BCE to 1531 CE; Colombia/Ecuador, Narino-Carchi, ca. 500 to 900 CE; Mexico, Aztec, ca. 1300 to 1521 CE.. A quartet of ceramic survivals spanning the breadth of the ancient Americas, each piece a distinct voice in the long conversation between Andean and Mesoamerican potters. The largest, a globular Narino-Carchi jar from the high cordillera of the Ecuador-Colombia frontier, swells toward a near-perfect sphere; its grey-buff body carries lightly incised geometric panels traced before firing, and the shoulder bears a small modeled face flanked by applied ears, with relief arms and a beaded necklace descending across the belly, a figural treatment associated with the Capuli and Piartal traditions that flourished in the highlands. Beside it sits a hollow gourd-form vessel attributed to the Bahia culture of coastal Ecuador, its tapering upper lobe and applied lug suggesting both utilitarian use and a sculptor's pleasure in organic form. A Jama-Coaque figural whistle, the bust of a personage in a tall red-slipped headdress with cape or tunic, preserves the brilliant post-fire pigments and crisp modeling for which the culture of Ecuador's northern coast is admired, the eyes and mouth incised with quick assurance; a small aperture at the back betrays its original function as an aerophone, perhaps sounded in procession or ritual. The smallest piece, a relief sherd in the Aztec manner, retains a frontal face framed by what may be a feathered or beaded headband, perhaps once part of a censer or architectural ornament from the Basin of Mexico. Together the group telescopes some two millennia of Indigenous ceramic invention into a single shelf, the Andean wares speaking to highland and littoral economies, the Mesoamerican fragment to the ritual urban world that Cortes would find at Tenochtitlan. Size of largest: 5.2" D x 5" H (13.2 cm D x 12.7 cm H).
Provenance: private Colorado, USA collection
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Item #
202811
- Condition: Damaged. Figure and relief face are fragments. Larger jar has been repaired with break lines visible and areas of loss to lower front side and rim. All have expected surface wear with chips, nicks, and abrasions in areas. Gourd vessel is intact. Scattered earthen deposits throughout.
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