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Guanacaste-Nicoya Terracotta Trophy Head - PF.3239
Origin: Guanacaste, Nicoya, Costa Rica
Circa: 600
AD
to 1100
AD
Dimensions:
8" (20.3cm) high
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Terracotta
$6,000.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
There is a soft and gentle quality inherent in this
facial expression. The down-turned eyes and
thick eyelids may remind us of the pious saints
depicted in Italian Renaissance paintings. The
mouth is completely relaxed and down-turned,
as well. The entire composition of the face is
graced with an angelic quality integrated with a
compliant submissiveness. Perhaps the incised
decorations on the forehead, the sides of the
face and the four circles reveal the ideology or
god, which this vessel has been created in
reverence for. There are geometric designs
encircling the opening and at the back of the
head. The sun-drenched glaze still reveals its
glimmering surface in certain areas. The wide
opening and brim of this vessel may have been
created for the purpose to stir liquids together
during rituals. We are drawn again and again
through this sensitive composition, compelled to
pleasantly remember the golden moments of our
own angelic nature.
- (PF.3239)
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