Lot 2057
Chiriqui Costa Rican Tripod Rattle Vessel
Sold June 27, 2025
- Price realized
- $160
Price realized is the winning bid (hammer price) and excludes buyer’s premium.
About this lot
Estimated Value: $ 100-300
Origin: Pre-Columbian Chiriqui, Panama, 600-750 AD
Dimensions: 8.5×7.5in
Condition: There are chips one the legs rattle openings.
Additional Information: A tripod rattle vessel with animal figures at the top of the legs. The legs are cut open and has a clay ball in the hallow space creating the rattle noise when moved around. The feet have clay ball ornamentation at the curved tips. The vessel bottom dips down in-between the tree legs making it visible while twisted clay embellishments attach from the bottom to the top of the pot.
Chiriqui is the 2nd largest province of Panama. This is a tripod-legged chocolate pot. When the Spanish discovered cacao beans made into a chocolate drink in approximately 1510 (initially from the Aztecs) became a craze and valuable commodity to the Europeans often valued as much as gold or silver as well as salt. This was part of the “Intercambio Pre-Columbino” or Pre-Columbian exchange. Gold, silver, feather work, cacao beans, potatoes (from Peru), other new foodstuffs held different commodity values and were actively stolen or traded by the colonizers.
Lot details
- Lot
- 2057
- Closed
- June 27, 2025
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