Costa Rican Pottery Bird Form Vessel

Guanacaste  Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. Terracotta ritual vessels standing on three round openwork hollow legs, each containing rattling seeds;  molded with bird head, wings and tail to body and  red painted resist designs.  Fine intact exampleSize: 2-5/8  inches H. x 5-3/4 in L.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 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.