Lot 106
Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 BCE to 125 CE. Full of personality, this human effigy vessel of a seated man with a quasi-cylindrical body and an ovoid head with a bridge spout handle joining the head to the back (the spout emerging from the head) is elaborately decorated with an avian-inspired chocolate brown headdress framing his face with abstract plumes that also trail down his back and a grand golden pectoral. While most of the details are painted in a polychrome scheme of chocolate brown, cream, russet red, and golden orange, the facial features are nicely modeled. Figural forms like this example are relatively rare in Nazca art. A special example indeed! Size: 5.25" W x 8.625" H (13.3 cm x 21.9 cm)
Provenance: Ex - Gill collection, Florida
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- Condition: Probe hole to top of head. Head repaired, chips to spout and nicks to surface here and there. Overall vivid pigments and rare example.
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