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Costa Rican Green Stone Ceremonial Three Skull Mace Head

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Costa Rican Polychrome Pottery Tripod Vessel with Flutist: Atlantic Watershed Zone, Ticaban Period IV, Ca. 1 to 500 AD.Unique and rare style for a ritual vessel. The small central bowl is raised up by three standing figural legs, one playing a flute. They hav

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Costa Rican Green Stone Ceremonial Three Skull Mace Head

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Greater Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, Period IV Ca. 300-500 AD. Memorializing an ancestor or representing a deity with large eye orbits and cut toothy mouth in green andesitic basalt. Centrally pierced shaft hole.Size: 1-15/16 inches H. Intact and with age wear and calcified encrustations. Provenance: Ex collection of Stanley L. Kaufman and Sigrun Rampoldt, avid collectors of Pre-Columbian art throughout the 60s and early 70s who lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. #15575