Description:

Pre-Columbian, Central Peru, Chimu-Inca culture, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A set of 2 hand-built and highly burnished blackware pottery vessels - 1 is shaped like a bird with human arms, and the other is a whistling vessel depicting a wide-mouth feline. Size of largest (feline whistle): 8.5" L x 4.5" W x 7.125" H (21.6 cm x 11.4 cm x 18.1 cm)

Provenance: private Ojai, California, USA collection, by inheritance, collected before 2000

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#179651

  • Condition: Bird vessel has repair to spout rim, and feline vessel with repairs in several areas. Both with abrasions and fading to pigment commensurate with age, with light earthen deposits, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation to overall forms.

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