Description:

Pre-Columbian, South America, Colombia to Ecuador, Narino Highlands, Capuli / Narino culture, ca. 800 to 1500 CE. Two pottery bowls each decorated with bold negative-resist painting. One example features a flared pedestal foot and interior design of a large spread-winged eagle rendered. The second is a deep hemispherical bowl painted with stylized crouching monkeys on the interior, while the exterior is covered by stripes and triangular elements. Together they display the dynamic iconography and technical mastery of the Narino ceramic tradition. Size: 9.25" Diameter x 4" H (23.5 cm x 10.2 cm)

Provenance: private Burbank, Illinois, USA collection via inheritance 2024, acquired between 1970s to 2000s

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#196312

  • Condition: Both are repaired and restored. Larger bowl has infill and overpainting to pieces reattached at the rim, and a stable crack radiating from the rim to the center. The exterior base has a ring mark from an old display stand. The bird vessel is restored from many pieces with infill and overpainting along break lines. Flared foot is reattached and vessel is slightly lopsided. Manganese deposits on both.

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