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Olmec Blackware Bowl - Las Bocas browse these categories for related items... All Items: Pre-Columbian: Mexico: Pre AD 1000: item #866315 Please refer to our stock #SOW10592 when inquiring.
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Ancient Pre-Columbian Bowl, Olmec culture, Las Bocas, Puebla, Mexico, ca. 1200-900 B.C. Blackware pottery vessel of simple form with stylized symbolic quadripartite designs separated by bisected panels, red pigment highlights Olmec art was created to give power to the shaman and the shaman/ruler. Ceramics, for example, were fashioned of clay, which was coaxed into meaningful forms which would become the property and the containers of sacred substances of the important shamans. Then it was subject to fire and metamorposed into vessels infused with sacred power and life--vessels used to aid special persons to attain the power to cross into other realms. 4"D x 2-3/4"H, several repaired age cracks (repainting only over cracks, no new clay), plus a bit of rim roughness, else excellent condition. **For similar example, see Sothebys, May 14, 2004, lot 145; Skinner, American Indian & Ethnographic Art Sale, May 10th, 2008, lot 2012**
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