Description:

Pre-Columbian, Central Peru, Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 700 to 1000 CE. A hand-built pottery bowl with a round but stable base, convex walls, and a thin rim overhanging the deep basin. The highly burnished exterior is covered with a red-slipped ground, and vibrant orange, white, yellow, and black pigments are applied on top. The front features an abstract anthropomorphic face with protruding ears, a perky nose, semicircular eyes with arching brows above and scarification lines below, and an ovoid mouth, all beneath a black headband bedecked with yellow circles. Size: 6.625" W x 3.4" H (16.8 cm x 8.6 cm)

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection

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#149708

  • Condition: Stabilization to one lengthy fissure stemming from rim. Minor abrasions and fading to original pigmentation, and light encrustations within basin. Light earthen deposits throughout.

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