Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle, ca. 600 to 1000 CE. A lovely set of 2 hand-built pottery vessels from the ancient Cocle culture. First is a tall pedestal dish with a flared foot and a broad basin decorated with an abstract anthropomorphic figure in black, red, and white hues. The second vessel is a squat bowl with a solid red basin and exterior walls decorated with black serrations, purple bands, and a pair of abstract avian creatures. Size (pedestal dish): 5.75" W x 3.125" H (14.6 cm x 7.9 cm); (bowl): 5.6" W x 2.375" H (14.2 cm x 6 cm)

Provenance: ex-Knoxville, Tennessee, USA collection; ex-Estates of Ora and Eleanor Eads, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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#169743

Bowl of pedestal dish repaired from 4 large pieces, with resurfacing and overpainting along break lines; squat bowl is intact and very good. Both vessels have light abrasions and fading to original pigment, with light encrustations, and good manganese deposits. Nice preservation to decorative motifs. Squat bowl has old inventory number written on tape fragment beneath base.