A large Colima Redware Saucer Olla
ca. 100 BCE - 250 CE Gemstones Melbourne1993 Northern Territory Art Award

Melbourne1993 Northern Territory Art Award

Provenance: Private East Coast collection

19th Century

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Royaumes sur le Nil 1997 (Exhibition in Munich

A large Colima Redware Saucer Olla<br><em>ca. 100 BCE - 250 CE</em> Gemstones Melbourne1993 Northern Territory Art AwardThe Colima culture flourished on the Pacific coast of Mexico from about 200 BCE to 300 CE, and their ceramics are highly regarded as sculptural works portraying motion, vitality, and dynamism. This large, and impressive redware pottery olla is such an example. In the form of a large, perfect saucer, with a wide mouth and a flared lip, the vessel was burnished before firing so the surface is highly polished. The symmetry and thin walls of the clay body