哥斯达黎加尼科亚 Terracotta 非常精美的美洲虎纹碗。直径 15.5 厘米。西班牙进口许可证。

Bowl or vessek with a Jaguar stylized

- extremly fine -

Nicoya, Costa Rica · c. 500 - 800 AD

Terracotta and pigments

15,6 cm diameter and 6,5 cm height.

PROVENANCE:
- Private collection, B. C., Paris, France, acquired before 1980.
- Private collection, Barcelona.

Condition: Repaired

Documents: With Spanish Import / Export license.

Greater Nicoya is an archaeological region that covers northwest Costa Rica and the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. The Southern Subregion, or Guanacaste, occupies the Nicoya peninsula, the Tempisque River basin and the Guanacaste and Tilarán mountain ranges. This is an area with human occupation for about 10,000 years, and important remains of material culture in ceramics, carved stone and jade have already been found in the Tempisque period (500-300 BC). In the Bagaces period (300-800 AD) there was already a complex social organization that was reflected in a greater variety in burial formulas, which included the use of large stone blocks. Around the year 800, the territory of Guanacaste was occupied by Chorotega groups from the north, from the Valley of Mexico, who were fleeing Olmec domination. This migration will bring the cultural influence of the Mayans and form the germ of the Kingdom of Nicoya, one of the main pre-Columbian chiefdoms existing in Mesoamerica upon the arrival of the Spanish.

Notes:
- The piece includes authenticity certificate.
- The piece includes Spanish Export License.
- The seller guarantees that he acquired this piece according to all national and international laws related to the ownership of cultural property. Provenance statement seen by Catawiki.