Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 600 BCE. A hand-built pottery bottle of a globular form with a slightly rounded but stable base, a gourd-shaped body with a sloped shoulder, and a narrow neck that gradually tapers until culminating in a flared rim. The highly burnished surfaces are adorned with dark-brown pigment which imbues it with its signature appearance, and surrounding the shoulder are dozens of applied concentric circles that resemble seeds or perhaps, in a more abstract manner, the way in which a female frog carries her young within her back until ready to be born. Size: 4.8" W x 7.7" H (12.2 cm x 19.6 cm)
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, collected from the 1950s to the 1960s
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#161442
Condition
Minor abrasions to neck, body, and base, with chipping to some raised circular decorations along shoulder, otherwise intact and very good. Nice craquelure to areas of brown pigment, particularly around base. Old inventory label on base.