Description:

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A nicely matched pair of polychrome pottery drinking vessels. One with a slightly corseted body with a flaring rim and gently rounded base. The exterior body is painted with red around its lower body and bands of white, red, and black in registers around its upper body. This item would have been used for drinking fermented chicha, a type of corn beer, and probably placed into a burial to hold offerings. Also a small bowl, also for offerings, with a stepped motif around its exterior upper body. Size of largest: 5.6" W x 5.5" H (14.2 cm x 14 cm)

Provenance: private Allison collection, Kent, Washington, USA, inherited in the mid-1970s

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#140653

  • Condition: Both are intact. Small chip from rim on the larger. Excellent remaining pigment with nice deposits on surface.

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