4 Narino Miniature Buff-Ware Jars, Punctate Bridge Form

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A quartet of miniature buff-ware jars, each thrown by hand into a full, near-spherical body that rises to a short neck and a sharply everted rim. Three carry plain collars; the fourth is the outlier, its shoulder pierced with a row of punctate dots and its mouth spanned by twin strap handles, a bridge form favored for suspension or cordage. The surfaces are burnished to a soft sheen, the pale slip broken by ochre clouding and fire blooms from open, uncontrolled firing. Vessels of this compact scale are typical of highland Narino domestic and mortuary assemblages, where small ollas held coca lime, pigment, chicha, or offerings interred with the dead. Their appeal lies in economy of profile: no painted register, no modeled figure, only volume, stance, and the record of the flame. Size of largest: 3.95" H x 3.25" Diam (10.0 cm H x 8.3 cm Diam); Size of smallest: 2.65" H x 3.15" Diam (6.7 cm H x 8.0 cm Diam). The Narino (also written Nariño, and shared across the modern Colombia and Ecuador frontier with the closely related Carchi tradition) occupied the high inter-Andean basins of the far southwest. Their ceramic corpus is best known for the negative-resist Capuli and Piartal styles, whose black-on-red spirals and stepped frets have long dominated the market, yet the great bulk of excavated material is undecorated utility ware of exactly this kind: burnished monochrome ollas, cantaros, and cuencos built by coiling, scraped thin, and fired in shallow pits. Shaft tombs in the region regularly yield such plain vessels stacked beside their painted counterparts, a reminder that the same potters produced both registers. The double-handled example warrants separate attention. Bridged and lugged mouths recur in Andean small wares because they allowed a vessel to be slung from a carrying net or a belt, keeping a portion of lime, resin, or pigment mobile. The punctate collar is decoration reduced to its cheapest possible gesture: a fingernail or reed impressed once, repeated around the shoulder before the clay stiffened. SHIPPING: We coordinate worldwide shipping in-house through specialist international forwarders experienced with fine art and antiquities customs manifests. International buyers must confirm, prior to bidding, that their country's customs authority will accept the item. All duties, taxes, clearance fees, and any costs arising from customs delays, seizures, re-export, returns, or loss in transit are the buyer's sole responsibility. Artemis assumes no liability for items refused entry, detained, or lost after export. We cannot ship ancient items to their country of origin (Egyptian to Egypt, Greek to Greece, etc.).For those not using LiveAuctioneers' Live Ship program, Artemis Fine Arts offers expert in-house packing and worldwide shipping. With over 20 years of experience, our team provides careful, reliable, and affordable service. For a quick quote on this lot, please contact support@artemisfinearts.com prior to the auction, or call 720-890-7700. PAYMENT EXCEPTION: For clients not previously established with Artemis, payment for all gold, precious metal, and gemstone lots must be made by bank wire transfer or certified bank check/money order, without exception. Item #204278

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