**First Time At Auction**

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A fine gathering of two hand-built pottery bowls, each with highly-burnished surfaces covered in a deep red slip. The smaller bowl has a thick rim decorated in applied black-and-white motifs, a protruding frog-form head and tail which double as handles, and a rounded body atop four short, conical legs. The larger vessel has a hemispherical body, a rim decorated in black-and-white zigzag motifs, and a flared, concave foot. Size of largest (rim w/ zigzags): 4.6" W x 2.9" H (11.7 cm x 7.4 cm).

Provenance: ex-private New York, New York, USA collection before 2010

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#147343

Smaller vessel repaired from multiple large pieces, with light restoration, resurfacing, and overpainting along break lines. Both vessels have minor abrasions to feet, bodies, and rims, with fading to original pigmentation, and light encrustations. Nice earthen deposits and light manganese blooms throughout.