EVA-V-047

This large, thick-walled cylinder stand is one of the most impressive pieces of ceramic art from Talepakemalai. The lack of any decoration on the lip suggests that it was intended to support a flat-bottomed dish. In profile, the slightly everted rim then tapers down to a narrower neck, then expands again and doubtless had a somewhat flaring base. There are two prominent raised bands around the middle section. The decoration between the rim and the first of these raised bands begins with motif A39 flanked top and bottom with RZ4D-5R-2 zone markers. Below this is the very elaborated main motif (PK73), consisting of a nested, double anthropomorphic face design. The smaller, inner face has dentate-stamped eyes, with the nose and face outlined with the zone marker technique. There is a kind of headdress of dentate-stamped triangular points that may represent feathers. This smaller face is nested within a larger, more stylized, curvilinear face motif in which the eyes are represented by a “star-burst” dentate design; this encompassing face likewise has a slightly more elaborate headdress again indicated by dentate-stamped spikes. Below this double-face, nested main motif is a zone marker (RZ4D-5R-2), followed by motifs A39 and M76-1 (situated on the upper raised band), then another zone marker (RZ4D-3-2), and a row of stamped circles (A417), and then another zone marker (RZ4D-4-2). Below this is a void, than another zone marker (RZ4D-4-2), followed by another row of stamped circles (A417), and a repeat of M76-1 on the second raised band. Below this lower raised band is motif A499. Another complex motif (PK141) covered the expanding cylinder stand surface below this, part only a small part of this has survived. This motif, which may have also incorporated a face design, combined dentate-stamping with lime-filled cutout grooves.