Container with engraved decoration Guanacaste... Lot 30

Container with engraved decoration Guanacaste culture, Nicoya region, Nicaragua/Costa Rica border Mid-period IV, 500-0 B.C. H. 28 cm - D. at neck 20 cm Brick red and light brown slip ceramic with a glossy glazed surface. Globular shape beautifully decorated on the body with three medallions in slight relief showing batrachians caught in a decoration of incised cruciform motifs. Slightly frustoconical neck with a flared and reinforced rim with a repeating vertical ornamental linear motif on the edge. Rare form, good condition Provenance: Former French collection whose ancestors lived in Nicaragua at the beginning of the 20th century. See Between Continents/Between Seas: Precolumbian Art of Costa Rica, New York, 1981, p. 178 no. 2, a very close copy.