Description:

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera culture, ca. 800 to 400 BCE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel of carinated circular form with a level base, a gradually sloped shoulder, a cylindrical spout with a thick, everted rim, and an attenuated, stirrup-shaped handle with a whistle tone hole on top. The handle connects to the verso of a highly stylized anthropomorphic head bearing an enormous nose, slender eyes, thick lips, and incised nasolabial folds, all beneath a wavy coiffure and framed by a pair of earspools. A large, pectoral-shaped adornment is incised beneath the neckline of the head, perhaps symbolizing royalty or spiritualism. Size: 7.1" Diameter x 8.3" H (18 cm x 21.1 cm)

Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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#172924

  • Condition: A couple of stable fissures on body and beneath base, with chipping to pigment on face and vessel, minor softening to some finer details, and light encrustations, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation to most facial features. Whistle still functions when air is blown into the spout.

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