Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel - Art for Eternity
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Fine Colima Pottery Gadrooned Parrot Vessel

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West Coast, Mexico, Circa 100 BC to 200 AD.

This handsome vessel, modeled in fine burnished redware clay, belongs to one of the most distinctive and coveted categories of ancient West Mexican ceramic art. The rounded, deeply gadrooned body — evoking the form of a ribbed gourd or squash — rises from feet in the sculptural form of parrot effigies, the bird's head turned alertly upward, its beak, crest, and tail rendered with assured naturalism.

The parrot occupied a charged position in the symbolic vocabulary of ancient Colima. Associated with the sun, fire, and the fecundity of the earth, the bird appears across a broad range of Colima shaft-tomb ceramics as both vessel support and effigy, its vivid plumage and aerial mobility linking the terrestrial world to celestial forces. Vessels of this type were placed as funerary offerings in the deep shaft-tombs characteristic of the Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit regions of western Mexico, accompanying high-status individuals in death and serving as vehicles for the soul's passage.

The warm, burnished surface retains traces of ancient use and burial, including mineral deposits and surface accretions that attest to the piece's antiquity and long interment. The modeling is confident and accomplished, with the gadrooned ridges cleanly executed and the parrot's anatomical details sensitively observed.

For closely related examples, see the vessel in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Vessel, Colima artist, inv. 4501) and the Vessel in the Form of a Squash with Parrot Supports in the Art Institute of Chicago (1–200 CE, inv. 224582).

Size 13 inches Diameter x 8-1/2 inches H.

Intact and impressive in person.

Provenance: Ex. private New York City Collection. Old collection number penned 6197 on underside.

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