Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. An attractive, hand-built pottery bowl of a broad form with a slightly convex base, sturdy walls, and a wide, shallow basin. Highly burnished and adorned with light brown pigment, the exterior walls are incised with intricate serpentine bars filled with crosshatch motifs as well as intersecting, curvilinear forms that perhaps depict a mesmerizing animal or an incredibly abstract human face. Almost all the incised details are brought forth against the brown ground with ample red cinnabar decorations. Size: 9.375" W x 2.75" H (23.8 cm x 7 cm)
Provenance: ex-Ashland University Museum, Ashland, Ohio, USA, donated to Ashland University between July 1994 to December 1998
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Condition
Repaired from multiple large pieces, with resurfacing and light adhesive residue along break lines. Minor fading to some cinnabar decorations. Great preservation to incised motifs across exterior surfaces.