Description:

**Originally Listed At $250**

Pre-Columbian, Northern Colombia, Rio Magdalena, ca. 800 to 1500 CE. A large hand-built pottery urn featuring a flat base, a tall cylindrical body, and a slightly rolled rim. Decorative details adorn the rim exterior, including segmented, tendril-like relief lines and abstract zoomorphic motifs, possibly stylized lizards or birds. Vessels of this type would often have been paired with elaborately modeled anthropomorphic lids, used in funerary or ceremonial contexts within the Rio Magdalena cultural sphere. Size: 8.75" W x 11" H (22.2 cm x 27.9 cm)

Provenance: private Colorado, USA collection; ex-Artemis Gallery; ex-private Boulder, Colorado, USA collection; ex-private Denver, Colorado USA collection; ex-HDE Enterprise, before 2000

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#196516

  • Condition: Felt pads added to the base and an old inventory label on the surface. Repaired and restored from many pieces with some small losses, and modern infill to gaps, with adhesive residue along the break lines. Age-commensurate surface wear, softening and abrasions to decorative program, and light roughness to surfaces.

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$0 $299 $25
$300 $999 $50
$1,000 $1,999 $100
$2,000 $4,999 $250
$5,000 $9,999 $500
$10,000 $19,999 $1,000
$20,000 $49,999 $2,500
$50,000 $99,999 $5,000
$100,000 $199,999 $10,000
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