Marajoara Polychrome Zoomorphic Funerary Urn Fragment

**Originally Listed At $650**

Pre-Columbian, Brazil, Lower Amazon Basin, Marajo Island, Marajoara culture, ca. 800 to 1400 CE. A hand-built pottery fragment from a large funerary urn depicting an abstract zoomorphic creature, perhaps a jaguar based on the slender nose and wide, teeth-filled mouth. The beige-slipped animal head has brown-and-red rectangular eyes, a narrow snout with red cruciform motifs along the bridge, a pair of discoid protrusions along the upper periphery that perhaps represent ears, and a broad mouth. An intriguing example of Marajoara funerary artistry! Size: 5.875" W x 6" H (14.9 cm x 15.2 cm); 9.9" H (25.1 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Los Angeles, California, USA collection; ex-Jean-Eugene Lions collection, Geneva, Switzerland, acquired prior to 1970

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#113665
Condition Report: This is a fragment from a large terracotta funerary urn. Repaired from multiple pieces, with restoration to lower periphery, and resurfacing and minor overpainting along new material and break lines. Losses to areas of top and verso as shown. Abrasions and nicks to face, peripheries, and verso, with fading and chipping to original pigmentation, several stable fissures, and encrustations across most surfaces. Nice earthen deposits and traces of original pigment throughout.