Costa Rican Polychrome Pottery Figural Vessel

 Greater Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed,  Period IV  Ca. 500 to 1500 AD A wonderful rounded painted jar with shamanistic devices incorporating figures painted and molded in high relief to either side. Geometric patterns profusely decorate body. Size 10 inches H. x 10 inches L + custom base.  Small rim chip else nice condition. Provenance: Ex collection of Stanley L. Kaufman, a Harvard educated lawyer who specialized in bringing suits on behalf of corporations' disgruntled stockholders, died in 1993 at the age of 81. He was a staff attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission before World War II, then served in the Army in Europe and rose to captain. In 1946 he became a founding partner in his law firm, Kaufman Malchman, Kaufmann & Kirby, which had branches in NYC and Los Angeles. He and his wife, Sigrun Rampoldt, were avid collectors of Pre-Columbian art throughout the 60s and early 70s, and lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.