**Originally Listed At $300**

Pre-Columbian, Colombia to Ecuador (Carchi) region, Narino Highlands, ca. 1250 CE. A beautiful hand-built pottery bowl with a concave foot, thick walls, a deep interior cavity, and a rolled rim. The exterior displays a decorative register of linear and triangular forms, perhaps representing avian-style wings. The inside of the vessel exhibits wonderful enclosed diamond-shaped geometric motifs with two simplistic standing cranes separated by thick crossing bands - all in vibrant red, black, and creamy-yellow hues via the Narino artisans' signature negative resist technique. Size: 8" Diameter (20.3 cm).

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private Poway, California, USA collection

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#130889

Repaired from several pieces with some restoration, resurfacing, and light overpainting atop break lines. Age-commensurate surface wear, small chips to foot and rim, fading to areas of pigmentation, otherwise very good. Light earthen deposits and nice manganese deposits throughout.