Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay, ca. 1000 to 1200 CE. A fine, hand-built vessel presenting a round yet stable base and impressively thin walls that flare outwards to a wide hip and then inwards to a circular rim over a deep basin. A pair of petite nub handles flanks the gently slanted shoulder. The exterior of the ancient vessel is enveloped in black slip with a large rectangle of beige slip on one side, stretching from handle to handle. The rectangle is embellished with slanted striations and dotted designs, while the opposite side of the vessel displays a singular horizontal line. The interior of the vessel boasts a coat of creamy beige pigment. Size: 5" in diameter x 2.7" H (12.7 cm x 6.9 cm)
The Chancay people were exceptional ceramic and textile artisans, and archaeologists have often found vessels like this example in the tombs of Chancay nobility. Chancay artisans created ceramics that are quite distinctive in form and decoration - finely painted and molded with specific decorative details carefully added by hand - as we see in this example. The Chancay replaced the Wari, were contemporaries of the Inca, and in their latter period came under Inca influence. Their goods were traded throughout the Andean region.
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-George Grossblatt collection, acquired in the 1960s, and thence by descent to his widow B.D., New York City, New York, USA
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#168072
Condition
Collection label on base. Some miniscule nicks to body and rim. Otherwise, intact and excellent with strong mineral deposits and root marks, as well as impressive remains of pigments.