Three Nicoya Incised Redware Bowls

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Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya (Greater Nicoya, Guanacaste), ca. 1000–1500 CE. A trio of hand-built earthenware bowls, each a compressed globe of burnished buff-to-terracotta clay, the walls drawn inward to a plain unthickened rim. Decoration is restrained and confident: shallow incised arcs and hatched panels sweep across the shoulders, the lines still holding traces of pale slip or mineral encrustation that throws them into relief against the warmer body. The largest is the shallowest and widest, the two smaller examples more sharply shouldered. Vessels of this class served domestic and mortuary purposes alike in the Greater Nicoya sphere, where such plain-to-incised wares accompanied the more familiar polychromes in burial assemblages. The economy of the ornament, a few strokes placed exactly where the eye follows the curve, is characteristic of the potters of the Guanacaste peninsula. Size of largest: 2.7" H x 5.44" Diam (6.9 cm H x 13.8 cm Diam); Size of smallest: 2.7" H x 5.25" Diam (6.9 cm H x 13.3 cm Diam). Greater Nicoya, spanning the Guanacaste province of northwestern Costa Rica and the Pacific shore of Nicaragua, was one of the most productive ceramic provinces of the Intermediate Area. Its workshops are best known for elaborate polychromes (Papagayo, Vallejo, Mora), but the same communities produced large quantities of monochrome and incised utilitarian wares, coil-built without the wheel, smoothed with a pebble or gourd rib, and fired in open bonfires that left the mottled fire-clouding often visible on the exteriors. Incised decoration of this kind, cut into leather-hard clay before firing, is a shorthand vocabulary rather than a narrative one, and it persisted across centuries with remarkable conservatism, which is one reason such bowls resist tight dating on style alone. 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 #204268

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