Description:

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Inca hinterlands (Chucu), ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A beautiful fragment of a pottery vessel that has been painted with vibrant pigments in hues of red, cream, grey-brown, yellow-orange, and green in a checkerboard pattern. Plaques like this example were created by intentionally smashing large pottery vessels and then painting the fragments with intricate and abstract motifs. The Inca would paint plaques as offerings to Pacha Mama and Pacha Papa (Mother and Father Earth) to protect the health of the livestock and the human inhabitants of the clan. Size: 11" W x 10.2" H (27.9 cm x 25.9 cm)

Provenance: ex-private Hillberg collection, Sonoma County, California, USA, acquired between 1960 and 1970

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#150558

  • Condition: This is a fragment of a larger pottery vessel. Minor nicks to peripheries and obverse, with light fading to original pigmentation, and minor encrustations. Great traces of original pigment across obverse.

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