Description:

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. A round-bodied jar with a curved base designed to be set into sand, a slightly flared rim, and a wide register of "heart-shaped" motifs around its exterior. These are red, black, brown, and orange on a creamy white background. In reality, these depict heart-shaped plants, probably something that would have been seen by the artist around their homeland. Nazca pottery, thin-walled and well-formed, with abstract designs in strong contrast to the realism of its contemporary to the north, the Moche, is known from underground burial chambers. This jar was made to be placed in a grave, perhaps full of offerings or symbolic libations like sand. Size: 6" W x 7.15" H (15.2 cm x 18.2 cm)

Provenance: private Pearson collection, Denver, Colorado, USA; ex private Danish collection, acquired early 1970s, collection #1392

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  • Condition: Repaired from two halves, with light overpainting over the repaired line. Two small losses to the rim.

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