Cocle Polychrome Spouted Feline Effigy Jar w/ Birds

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Fine Ancient | Asian | Ethnographic Art

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Mar 21, 2019

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• Lot Description
  Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A charming pottery vessel with a wide, apple-shaped body resting atop a slightly-concave ring foot. The rounded shoulder tapers inward to a corseted neck, boasts a large fill hole atop the bulbous upper body, and has a conical spout rising up on the verso. The upper body is highly-stylized and shaped to resemble a fearsome jaguar head with beady eyes, a tab-shaped nose, bared fangs, and S-shaped wisps of hair throughout. Each half of the body exhibits a pair of abstract bird heads with frilled crests and lengthy conical beaks, all decorated with black, red, and purple hues atop a cream ground. The use of purple pigment indicates this is a later Cocle vessel of the Conte/Macaracas style. Size: 5.875" W x 6.8" H (14.9 cm x 17.3 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 Tonosí pottery styles are identified by their the use of three paint colors which were black, red and white (or cream). The later Cubitá style saw the emergence of the use of four colors. The styles of Conte, Macaracas and Joaquín 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 back 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 Colorado, USA collection; ex-private San Francisco, California, USA collection; ex-Danny Pemberton collection
  
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  Condition

  Small nicks to upper body, spout, and lower body, with chipping and age-commensurate darkening to scattered areas of original pigmentation, flaking to surface pigmentation as shown, and light overpainting within some chipped areas, otherwise intact and excellent. Scattered areas of earthen deposits, and great manganese blooms as well as craquelure to pigmentation throughout.
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