Coclé Polychrome Bowl

Conte style, circa AD 800 - 1000

Auction Closed

December 12, 04:12 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 EUR

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La Collection Deletaille

Coclé Polychrome Bowl

Conte style, circa AD 800 - 1000

Height: 10 ⁵/₈ in (27 cm)

Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, New York

Lin and Emile Deletaille, Brussels, acquired from the above in 1980

Thence by descent

The dancing saurian figure in this ring-based bowl has only three appendages with the leg featuring a particularly large clawed foot. The serpent element, even in a very stylized form in Conte ceramics, is associated with life force. As noted by Armand J. Labbé, “underlying the use of the serpent as an icon for the life force is the belief that this energy is the animating principle in all life-forms, regardless of their external characteristics” (Armand J. Labbé, Guardians of the Lifestream, Shamans, Art and Power in Prehispanic Central Panama, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, 1995, p. 38).

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