La Aguada Black-on-Red Pottery Bowl

**Originally Listed At $200**

Pre-Columbian, South America, Argentina, La Aguada / Aquada culture, ca. 700 to 1000 CE. A hand-built redware pottery bowl with a petite, concave foot, rounded walls, and a shallow basin surrounded by a thick rim. The russet-hued body is decorated with applied black curvilinear motifs along the exterior as well as a pair of abstract, checker-bodied figures along the interior walls of the basin. Size: 6.1" W x 3.125" H (15.5 cm x 7.9 cm)

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-Arte Primitivo, New York, New York, USA, before 2010; ex-private Southwestern United States collection

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Condition Report: Minor nicks and abrasions to foot, walls, and rim, with light fading to original pigment, and light encrustations, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits throughout. Old inventory label beneath foot.