Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Proto Nazca to early Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 200 CE. A lovely pair of hand-built pottery vessels of stylized avian forms, each with a rounded belly and a plump body flanked with a pair of tab-shaped wings. The protruding heads features large, white-painted eyes and petite beaks, and a nubbin tail protrudes out behind a squat, circular rim. The highly burnished bodies are painted with dark brown pigment that nicely complements the light orange buffware beneath. Size of each (both are relatively similar): 4.375" L x 2.6" W x 2.3" H (11.1 cm x 6.6 cm x 5.8 cm)
This piece has been tested using thermoluminescence (TL) analysis and has been found to be ancient and of the period stated. A full report will accompany purchase.
Provenance: ex-Drimmer collection, Florida, USA, before 1965
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#165167
Condition
Both vessels have minor nicks to rims, bodies, wings, and heads, with abrasions and small chips to surface pigment, and light encrustations within bodies, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation to remaining pigment. TL drill hole beneath body of one vessel.