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Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle, Parita or El Altillo style, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. A beautiful example of a wheel-thrown pottery vessel exhibiting a sizable form with a rounded base, a wide lower body with a sloped shoulder, a central carination below a second, smaller vessel body that doubles as the neck of the main vessel, and a thick rim surrounding the deep basin. The cream-slipped ground serves as an elegant 'canvas' atop which are presented large swaths of dark-brown pigment, negative resist vertical bands, and broad ovoid panels filled with abstract linear motifs that are bisected with dense, vertical red stripes. Size: 12.4" W x 12.25" H (31.5 cm x 31.1 cm); 13.4" H (34 cm) on included custom stand.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 the 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 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.)For a stylistically similar example of a carinated Cocle vessel, please see: Labbe, Armand J. "Guardians of The Life Stream: Shamans, Art and Power in Prehispanic Central Panama." The University of Washington Press, 1995, p. 29, fig. 17. Provenance: ex-private Oklahoma, USA collection, acquired in the 1960s 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. We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #151289