Pre-Columbian, northern Colombia, Malambo culture, ca. 1000 BCE to 100 CE. A hand-built pottery ceremonial dish of an interesting form bearing a broad, rectangular body resting atop four nubbin feet, a shallow basin surrounded by an overhanging rim, fin-like elements protruding from each corner, and a pair of abstract zoomorphic heads on the sides that double as handles. The front and back of the body are decorated with two highly abstract anthropomorphic heads that extend outward with broad necks, each bearing incised motifs and applied cinnabar pigment, and the front head exhibits a pair of nodule-shaped 'eyes' on top. Size: 11.375" L x 12.125" W x 5.125" H (28.9 cm x 30.8 cm x 13 cm)
Provenance: ex-private T. Misenhimer collection, Beverly Hills, California, USA, collected from 1970 to 2008; ex-Ron Messick Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, acquired before 2004
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to recent increases of shipments being seized by Australian & German customs (even for items with pre-UNESCO provenance),
we will no longer ship most antiquities and ancient Chinese art to Australia & Germany. For categories of items that are acceptable to ship to Australia, please contact us directly or work with your local customs brokerage firm.
#152647
Condition
Professionally repaired from multiple pieces, with restoration to some areas of body, and resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Abrasions and minor nicks to legs, base, body, and heads, with light fading to red cinnabar, softening to some incised details, and light encrustations. Light earthen deposits throughout, and nice traces of original cinnabar in some incised details.