**Originally Listed At $500**

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 650 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished blackware pottery vessel depicting a seated figure wearing a hooded poncho with a blanket underneath. The figure sits with incised hands grasping both knees to keep his or her upper body upright, and the feet peek out from beneath the blanket. Almond-shaped eyes, a prominent nose, and shallow nasolabial folds flanking the thin mouth comprise the visage, and projecting from the stirrup-shaped handle is a straight, cylindrical spout. Size: 4.625" W x 8.75" H (11.7 cm x 22.2 cm)

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private T. Misenhimer collection, Beverly Hills, California, USA, collected from 1970 to 2008

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#156961

Repairs to handle on either side of spout base, with nearly invisible resurfacing and overpainting along break lines. Minor abrasions, light encrustations, and fading to scattered areas of original pigment. Light earthen deposits throughout. Old inventory label beneath base.