**Originally Listed At $450**

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Grand Cocle, ca. 500 to 900 CE. A pair of attractive, wheel-thrown terracotta red-slip vessels, one a pedestal dish and the other an olla with a petite composition. First is a shallow dish with a large pedestal base, a slender neck, and a rolled rim with an orange-red coloration. The second vessel is a squat olla with a near-flat base, a spherical body, a recessed neck, and a flared rim with a stripe across the top, all with a red-orange hue. Both vessels are decorated with abstract, black-painted linear and geometric designs, imbuing each with a wonderful bichrome appearance. Size of largest (pedestal dish): 3.125" H (7.9 cm).

Provenance: ex-private Southern California, USA collection, acquired over twenty years ago

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Both vessels have age-commensurate surface wear and abrasions, small nicks to bases and rims, and fading to some pigmentation, otherwise intact and excellent. Great earthen and mineral deposits as well as pigmentation craquelure throughout.