Pedestal plate · Panama, Veraguas region/Coclé · ID: 3038692
sold
EUR 3,200
Provenance
Robert & Marianne Huber, Dixon, USAKetterer, Munich, 18. Mai 1984, lot 27
Robert Zink, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Size
H: 12,4 cm
D: 24 cm
H: 4.9 inch
D: 9.4 inch
Description
burnished clay, polychrome paint (red, blue, black, creme white), thick-walled, the interior of the flat plate painted with a priest or shaman who is wearing a stylized mask of the Crocodile God, highly abstract, rare en-face design, conical foot with flaring rim, dam., rep.;
the design, bordered by dark lines, playing with rythmic alternation, fills up all the available place, demonstrating a certain “horror vacui”.
Comparing literature
Paz, Octavio et. al., Ritual Arts of the New World, Geneve 2000, ill. 85