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Zoomorphic Vessels : Offering Bowl Resting on a Double-Headed Crocodile
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Offering Bowl Resting on a Double-Headed Crocodile - PF.2244
Origin: Guanacaste, Nicoya, Costa Rica
Circa: 1000
AD
to 1350
AD
Dimensions:
4.875" (12.4cm) high
x 6.5" (16.5cm) wide
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Terra Cotta
£9,000.00
Location: UAE
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A fierce double-headed crocodile, an animal
worshiped in the Isthmus regions as a God,
guards this offering bowl. With two growling
snouts facing in opposite directions, resting atop
four muscular legs, this fantastic creature seems
ready to repel any evil that might approach the
bowl. Nature is blended with the human
imagination to create a strange new reality. The
underside of the bowl is slotted to form a kind of
musical instrument, perhaps to attract the
attention of the gods. There is no question that
this bowl radiates magic. The passage of
centuries has not dimmed the power of its
reptilian guardians, or the benevolent energy
that surrounds them.
- (PF.2244)
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