Cocle Pottery Pedestal Dish, Jar, and Turtle

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Ancient & Ethnographic Art Through The Ages

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Oct 22, 2020

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  Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle, ca. 600 to 1000 CE. Three remarkable hand-built polychrome pottery pieces: a pedestal, a jar, and a turtle. The pedestal features a hollow conical foot decorated with four triangular apertures on its perimeter supporting a shallow circular dish adorned in tondo with a design of abstract mythological creatures in swirling hues of black, cobalt, crimson, and cream. Presenting with a discoid base, rotund body, and circular fill hole, the jar exhibits an expressive anthropomorphic visage with wide concentric circle eyes, large nostrils, and a down turned open mouth enriched with polka-dots, a devil's tail, and a circular anus on the opposite side of the face, all rendered in red and black paint. Last, the turtle, stands on four stout legs with a nearly flat back, almost appearing as a small table. Also embellished in shades of black, red, and cream paint, the petite animal boasts a lovely stone burnish, striped legs, and a circular shell showing a triangle motif. Three exemplary pieces from the ancient Cocle! Size of largest: 6.875" W x 4.25" H (17.5 cm x 10.8 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: ex Arte Primitivo, New York, New York, USA collection
  
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  Condition

  Pedestal restored from 6 pieces and has two miniscule stable hairline fissures. Two collection labels on bottom of turtle's legs. Expected small nicks/chips and abrasions to all, commensurate with age. Otherwise, excellent.
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