Description:

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Salinar culture, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. A hand-built and burnished pottery temple effigy bearing 3 progressively narrowing tiers that culminate in an awning that shelters a pair of abstract anthropomorphic figures. The orange-hued vessel is decorated with repeating brown and yellow bands with some orange bands present along the upper half, and the sides of the awning bear inversely corresponding step motifs that create an eye-catching presentation. Several perforations in the upper 2 tiers suggest that this architectural effigy was used as an incensario or as a vessel for holding funerary offerings at one time. Size: 7" L x 8" W x 12.25" H (17.8 cm x 20.3 cm x 31.1 cm)

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection, 1995 to 2010; ex-Ron Messick collection, New Mexico, USA

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#173738

  • Condition: Professionally repaired with restoration, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Abrasions and spalls, with nicks to body, awning, and figures, softening to some finer details of anthropomorphic figures, earthen deposits and light encrustations, fading to original pigment, and a couple of stable hairline fissures. Nice preservation to overall form. Old inventory label beneath body.

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