Cocle Macaracas Polychrome Pedestal Plate w/ Cranes

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Pre-Columbian / Ethnographic Art

By Artemis Gallery

Jan 24, 2019

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• Lot Description
  Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle culture, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. A lovely hand-built pottery plate of a sizable presentation with a conical foot, a tapering neck with a pair of slits, a wide basin, and a rolled rim. The entire vessel is covered in a pale-orange ground that forms the backing for the intricate Macaracas style details in black, red, and purple hues. A register of 3 concentric triangles is painted beneath a solid dark band along the foot and neck, and the underside has a solid layer of red pigment. The rim is segmented with red, cream, and purple bars. The basin displays a wondrous scene of 6 left-facing cranes walking around a dark ground and on top of a bullseye-style center. A beautiful example replete with expert artistry and vibrant colors. Size: 9.8" W x 7.125" H (24.9 cm x 18.1 cm).
  
  According to scholar Samuel Kirkland Lothrop, "The Gran Cocle culture is a Pre-Columbian archaeological culture that gets its name from the area from which it was based, the now present-day Cocle province of Panama. The Gran Cocle term applies to a loosely studied group of Native American sub-cultures in this region, identified by their pottery styles. The overall period spans a time from 150 B.C. to the end in the 16th century A.D. upon Spanish contact. The most ancient culture is the La Mula period from 150 B.C. to 300 A.D. The La Mula and later Monagrillo and Tonosi pottery styles are identified by their use of three paint colors which were black, red and white (or cream). The later Cubita style saw the emergence of the use of four colors. The styles of Conte, Macaracas and Joaquin added purple to their palette and this hue ranged from grayish tones to red purple. The use of purple disappeared in the subsequent styles of Parita and El Altillo and the paint style reverted to the use of three colors. Most notable in the artistic renderings are the overt use of geometric designs." (For more information, see Armand Labbe, "Guardians of The Life Stream: Shamans, Art and Power in Prehispanic Central Panama" - Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, University of Washington Press, 1995)
  
  Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private Dallas, Texas, USA collection
  
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  Condition

  Professionally repaired and restored from multiple large pieces with resurfacing and overpainting along break lines. Minor nicks and abrasions to foot, underside of bowl, rim, and basin, with minor fading to original pigmentation, and light encrustations. Nice earthen deposits and great manganese blooms throughout.
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