Description:

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, early Tembladera phase, ca. 1000 to 800 BCE. A sizable and hand-built pottery vessel with a round but stable base, a spherical body with a grooved neck line, a tapering spout, and a lightly-flared rim. The front of the bottle is decorated with a raised owl face with incised circular eyes bedecked with nubbin pupils inside eight radiating striations, a bulbous nose with delineated nostrils, and an applied aquiline beak with an incised mouth line. Applied red-orange pigmentation colors the incised grooves, and the rest of the highly-burnished body is enveloped in a light-brown slip. Size: 7.4" W x 8.625" H (18.8 cm x 21.9 cm).

This piece has been tested using thermoluminescence (TL) analysis and has been found to be ancient and of the period stated. A full report will accompany purchase.

Provenance: private Southern California, USA collection, acquired in the 1970s to mid-1980s

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#140920

  • Condition: Minor abrasions to body, owl face, neck, and rim, with light encrustations, and fading to original coloration in some areas, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits and nice traces of original pigmentation throughout. Two TL drill holes: one beneath base, and one beneath rim on exterior.

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