Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Nicoya region, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A hand-built pottery bowl of a broad and attractive form. Presented in hues of red and black atop a cream ground, the vessel features a planar base, squat, swollen walls, and a shallow basin, all surrounded by a band of black pigment along the exterior rim. The basin surfaces are densely decorated with a register of frets around the rim interior, inversely corresponding hook-form motifs below, a ring of abstract zoomorphic creatures surrounding the center, and a stylized anthropomorphic head within the center. Size: 9.8" Diameter x 3.1" H (24.9 cm x 7.9 cm)

Provenance: private Lumberton, Texas, USA collection, acquired before 2010

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Extensive restoration to roughly half of the walls' circumference, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines; restoration does not extend much onto the basin decorations. Nicks, abrasions, and light fading to original pigment, with darkening and earthen deposits in scattered areas, and a couple of small spalls along exterior surfaces. Nice preservation to original decorative motifs within basin.