Description:

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, late Nazca to early Wari (Huari), ca. 500 to 700 CE. A charming pottery vessel from the very end of the Nazca empire. The vessel is defined by a stable circular base, an apple-shaped body with a rounded shoulder, and a tall chimney spout. The body depicts a dramatic human skull with slightly concave discoid eyes, a protruding nasal bone, pointy ears, an open mouth revealing teeth, and whiskers extending to either side of the lips - all in red and black against a white ground. Contributing to the character of the piece are red sinuous trails of blood that project from both above and below the nose. Size: 4.5" in diameter x 5.5" H (11.4 cm x 14 cm)

Provenance: ex-private Gill collection, Orlando, Florida, USA; ex Art For Eternity Gallery, New York, New York, USA; ex-private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-Kunst Haus Lempertz, Cologne, Germany (auction 490, 1966, 2014); ex-collection of Prof. Dr. Günther Marschall (1913 - 1997), Hamburg, Germany

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#146119

  • Condition: Tiny nicks to rim and edges of protruding nose. Slight surface wear, but pigmentation and details are still strong. Nice burnishing marks as well. Old collection labels on underside of base. Overall very good.

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