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Nazca Polychrome Bowl w/ Trophy Heads

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Description

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery bowl of a minimalist form with a round but stable base, tall walls, and a deep basin. Highly burnished and presented in hues of crimson, jet black, cream, citrine, and umber, the vessel presents an exterior program of 6 stylized trophy heads turned to one side and segregated within individual windows, each with semicircular eyes, full lips, mounded coiffures, and trapezoidal ears. Both the interior basin surfaces as well as the base are decorated with a uniform layer of red-brown pigment. Size: 6.6" W x 2.875" H (16.8 cm x 7.3 cm)

Provenance: ex-Quinn Auction Galleries, Auction 808, lot #54; ex-private Upstate New York, USA collection, acquired in the mid to late 20th century

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Condition

Small chip to rim with stable hairline fissure extending down into basin. Minor abrasions and fading to pigment across exterior. Nice preservation to trophy heads encircling walls.

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Nazca Polychrome Bowl w/ Trophy Heads

Name: Nazca Polychrome Bowl w/ Trophy Heads
SKU: 111791512
Price: 350 USD
Availability: InStock

Estimate $600 - $900

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