**Originally Listed At $450**

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery offering bowl with a slightly rounded bottom and a handle featuring a stylized anthropomorphic face. The expressive countenance bears impressed eyes, nostrils, ears, and teeth, with bulging eyebrows just beneath the tall forehead, and a slender headdress that doubles as the handle top. A narrow slit behind the face suggests the handle contained petite rattle balls at one time. Size: 5.7" W x 10.625" H (14.5 cm x 27 cm)

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-Splendors of the World, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; ex-private T. Misenhimer collection, Hollywood, California, USA, acquired between 1960 and 2000

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#157435

Repaired from multiple pieces, with restoration along some areas of handle and bowl, and resurfacing with overpainting along new material and break lines. Abrasions and fading to original pigment, with light encrustations within some facial details. Nice original pigment throughout.