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Pre Columbian Costa Rican Polychrome Pottery Figural Vessel

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Angel Botello (PUERTO RICAN, 1913äóñ1986) Signed Lithograph El Ruido: Angel Botello signed lithograph, "El Ruido";. Framed. Signed lower right: Botello. Frame: 38 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches Sight: 24 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches Condition: Good. Biography from Askart: Painte

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Pre Columbian Costa Rican Polychrome Pottery Figural Vessel

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Description

Greater Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, Period IV Ca. 300-500 AD. A wonderful rounded painted jar with shamanistic devices incorporating figures painted and molded in high relief to either side. Geometric patterns profusely decorated to body.Size 7-38 inches H. x 8 inches L + lucite ring base. Provenance: Ex collection of Stanley L. Kaufman, a Harvard educated lawyer who specialized in bringing suits on behalf of corporations' disgruntled stockholders, died in 1993 at the age of 81. He was a staff attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission before World War II, then served in the Army in Europe and rose to captain. In 1946 he became a founding partner in his law firm, Kaufman Malchman, Kaufmann & Kirby, which had branches in NYC and Los Angeles. He and his wife, Sigrun Rampoldt, were avid collectors of Pre-Columbian art throughout the 60s and early 70s, and lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Condition

Some rim chips and abrasions.

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Pre Columbian Costa Rican Polychrome Pottery Figural Vessel

Name: Pre Columbian Costa Rican Polychrome Pottery Figural Vessel
SKU: 151998302
Price: 400 USD
Availability: InStock

Estimate $700 - $900

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Starting Price $400

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