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Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay / Chimu, ca. 800 to 1450 CE. A fascinating and quite sizable pottery olla featuring a voluminous body, a corseted neck, and a wide-flaring spout flanked by a pair of ribbon-form handles, all sitting upon a rounded base. Adorned in white on black on red decoration, the vessel is painted with 2 panels of imagery, each displaying a crouching simian figure with frog-like legs, outspread arms, large ears, and a huge headdress of 2 wing-like appendages, somewhat reminiscent of the pair of snakes that sprout from the head of the Moche deity Ai Apec. Each figure is placed between a pair of spiral motifs. Size: 11.2" Diameter x 16.1" H (28.4 cm x 40.9 cm); 17.5" H (44.4 cm) on included custom stand.

Find a nearly identical pottery jar labelled as Tiahuanaco culture at Stadtische Museen Freiburg, inventory number III/0684.

Provenance: Cultural Patina Gallery, Burke, Virginia, USA;ex-Collection of C. Nielson, MD, passed down from her grandfather.

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#188285

  • Condition: Small indentation to one side, likely an original flaw from firing. Some minor chipping to rim, as well as nicks and abrasions to surface, all commensurate with age. Otherwise, intact and in good condition with liberal remains of painted imagery.

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