Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Narino, ca. 1000 to 1500; Muisca culture, ca. 1200 to 1538 CE. A group of 3 hand-built pottery footed bowls, 2 from the Narino culture and 1 from the Muisca culture. The first Narino bowl features a squat foot, a russet-hued exterior, and a cream-slipped basin decorated with 3 waterbirds standing around a red central disc. The Muisca bowl is of a squat form with wide, carinated walls decorated with dot-filled linear motifs, and a large glyph-form motif is painted within the basin. The larger Narino bowl showcases a maroon-hued motif of concentric bands and 2 rows of step pyramids within the cream-ground basin. Size of largest: 7.1" W x 3.75" H (18 cm x 9.5 cm)

Provenance: private Englewood, Colorado USA collection; ex-M. Komor Gallery, New York City, New York USA circa 1965

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#171210

Each piece has light abrasions, fading to pigment, minor pitting in scattered areas, and a couple of petite spalls along exterior surfaces, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation to painted motifs and good earthen deposits.