**Originally Listed At $250**

Pre-Columbian, Colombia to Ecuador (Carchi) region, Narino Highlands, ca. 1250 CE. A beautiful hand-built pottery bowl with deep walls on a concave ring base, the interior adorned via negative resist with a decorative register of seven abstract avian figures, each one standing on slender legs atop a beige-hued ring. A pair of concentric rings decorate the middle of the tondo, with a five-pointed star in the center and three lines in the spaces between each arm. Though the majority of the exterior is undecorated, the foot is embellished with a thin band of red pigment. This beautiful iconographic program is rendered in an attractive color palette of red and beige on a chocolate-brown ground. Size: 8.25" W x 3.25" H (21 cm x 8.3 cm).

Provenance: private San Francisco, California, USA collection

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#133739

Bowl repaired from multiple large pieces with some small losses and light adhesive residue along break lines. Foot has some areas of restoration. Age-commensurate surface wear, fading to pigmentation and motifs, small nicks and chips along rim, foot, and exterior, and some discoloration to exterior. Nice earthen deposits and pigmentation remains throughout.