Description:

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 to 500 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a round-bottomed form presenting an attractive piscine motif around both the upper and lower body. Highly burnished and bearing hues of black, red, marigold, chocolate, and maroon on a cream ground, the vessel exhibits gently swelling lower walls, a carinated midsection beneath a tapered upper body, a round-topped shoulder, and a stirrup-shaped handle arching between a pair of conical spouts. A register of downward-facing fish around the upper body each have protruding fins and a single annular eye, and each of the fish around the lower body face towards the left above a program of round-cornered triangles. Size: 7.57" Diameter x 9.1" H (19.2 cm x 23.1 cm)

Provenance: ex-estate of Giraud V. Foster, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, before 2001

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#168924

  • Condition: Repaired from a few large pieces on body and handle, with minor restoration along some break lines, and resurfacing with overpainting along new material and break lines. Light abrasions and minor fading to pigment, with small nicks to spout rims, handle, body carination, and base, fire-darkening to base, and light pitting in scattered areas. Great preservation to geometric and fish motifs.

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