**Originally Listed At $650**
Pre-Columbian, Peru, Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A dramatic double-spouted polychrome ceramic stirrup vessel, featuring a silvery gray lower half, spouts, and handle, and a broad, domed shoulder decorated with a painting of a one-armed warrior. The warrior is set against a wine red background. He has burnt orange-colored skin, a white tunic, and wears a spear-like pendant on a bracelet on his good arm. His missing arm is replaced by a spray of arrows. The top of his head also has a spray of arrows projecting from it. A vessel like this would have been a grave good, probably made to hold some kind of libation or offering. It is beautifully made and a specialist workshop would have created it. Size: 6.55" W x 5.6" H (16.6 cm x 14.2 cm)
Provenance: ex-private T. Misenhimer collection, Beverly Hills, California, USA, collected from 1970-2008
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#150541
Condition
Expertly repaired and restored from multiple pieces; this is so well done as to be almost invisible. Approximately 80% original pigment with light deposits on surface.