**Originally Listed At $300**

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 400 CE. Two distinct hand-built pottery bowls of varied size and stylization. The largest of the pair features remarkably thin vertical walls, a rounded base, and a repeating minimalist motif across its exterior. The painted program is a series of repeating crescent shapes completed in hues of red and brown atop a cream-colored ground delineated by narrow columns. Its interior basin is decorated in a deep russet red. The second vessel features a slightly rounded base, with extensively flared walls featuring a very illustrative composition painted across its exterior depicting a pair of spear-wielding Anthropomorphic Mythical Beings with wide eyes. An interesting pair with differing aesthetic values which prevailed in the region during this era. Size: 7.25" W x 3" H (18.4 cm x 7.6 cm)

Provenance: ex-Ashland University Museum, Ashland, Ohio, USA, donated to Ashland University between July 1994 to December 1998

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#165436

Chipping to rim of larger vessel with scattered abrasions to painted decoration. Hairline fissures present on smaller vessel. Significant weathering of burnished finish with consequential abrasions to painted program. Otherwise in good overall condition.