Panamanian Cocle Pottery Pedestal Dish & Jar

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CLEARANCE | Antiquities & Ethnographic Art

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May 27, 2021

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• Lot Description
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  Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle, Macaracas type, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. A pair of remarkable hand-built polychrome Cocle pottery pieces comprised of a pedestal dish and a jar--this freestanding uniform set has a stunning allure. Abstract zoomorphic imagery decorates the globular jar in shades of cream, black, purple, and red. The jar's brief, slightly flared rim gives way to a circular opening lined with amber red paint. The pedestal dish is just as captivating with a decidedly linear motif, which perhaps is representative of snakes or mushroom stems, iconography often depicted in the Macaracas type. Size: 4" Diameter x 4.5" H (10.2 cm x 11.4 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 Stein collection, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA, acquired prior to 2010
  
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  #164245

  Condition

  Surface wear commensurate with age. Otherwise fully intact and in excellent condition.
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