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| Lot# & Name: |
002. Olmec Las Bocas Blackware Bowl, Incised Hematite-Filled Frieze |
| Estimate: |
$1,000-$1,500 |
| Current High Bid: |
$625.00 |
| Auction Closed(Final Price) |
$625.00 |
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| Category: |
Pre-Columbian Art
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| Sub Category: |
Mexico - Olmec and Pre-Classic Cultures
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| Culture or Country: |
Olmec tradition, Las Bocas / Tlatilco type.
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| Period: |
Ca. 1000 - 600 B.C.
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| Size: |
9-5/16"D. x 4-3/16"H. |
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| Description: |
A hemispherical blackware bowl carrying the full visual weight of the Middle Formative supernatural world condensed into a single incised frieze. Reduction-fired to a deep, carbon-saturated gray-black and burnished to a low, smoky sheen, the exterior surface is encircled by a band of post-fire incision filled with specular hematite pigment, a technique that turns every groove into a vein of iron-red against the dark ground. The register is populated by interlocking step-frets, double-line breaks, scroll elements, and abstracted paw-wing or cleft motifs drawn from the Olmec supernatural lexicon, the same imagery found carved into jade celts and monumental stone at San Lorenzo and La Venta. The interior is plain and polished, the base gently rounded. For the collector of Formative Mesoamerica, this bowl is precisely the object that made the Las Bocas tradition famous: compact in scale, monumental in intent.
Excellent condition. Areas of restabilization with resurfacing over fissures. Weathering with nicks and abrasions to surface as shown. Otherwise, intact and excellent with good remains of carved detail and pigment.
*This lot will not be on view at the New York exhibition, and will ship from Colorado* |
| Provenance: |
Private Colorado collection, ex. collection of Y. Kayvan, Los Angeles, California, acquired from a Los Angeles gallery, acquisition dates range from the late 1990’s to 2005. |
| Shipping Fee: |
| National: |
$0.00 |
| International: |
$0.00 (This is approximate and for Postal Service. Prices may vary, especially for private carriers such as: FEDEX, UPS and BAX).
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Olmec Las Bocas Blackware Bowl, Incised Hematite-Filled Frieze
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