Tairona Ceramic Serpent Effigy Vessel and rebirth

and rebirth

a time when the city flourished as one of Magna Graecia’s wealthiest and most artistically sophisticated mints

3" x 2 1/2"

Accompanied by a copy of the original Joel L

Tairona Ceramic Serpent Effigy Vessel and rebirthPre Columbian Tairona Zoomorphic Pottery Vessel Northern Colombia, c. AD 9001500 A striking and highly sculptural ceramic vessel from the Tairona culture of northern Colombia, masterfully modeled in the form of a coiled zoomorphic creature, likely serpentine or crocodilian in character. The dynamic form rises upward in a graceful arc, terminating in a stylized head, while a small cylindrical spout emerges from the upper body, connected by a bridge a