Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished blackware pottery vessel depicting a seated man as he plucks his chin with a set of tumi-shaped tweezers. The vessel exhibits a slightly rounded but stable base, an apple-shaped 'body' which doubles as the figure's body, a spout-form left arm, and a head-shaped spout with a trio of petite perforations on top, perhaps for use as a rattle at one time. The man plucks his face with the tweezers perhaps to keep himself nicely groomed, and above his almond-shaped eyes and prominent nose is a cord-patterned headwrap. Size: 4.7" W x 6.75" H (11.9 cm x 17.1 cm)

Provenance: ex-Drimmer collection, Florida, USA, before 1965

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Spout attached to left arm is from another vessel. Restoration around spout base on left arm as well as area of lower body on verso, with resurfacing and overpainting along verso area, and light earthen encrustations around spout base on left arm. Minor abrasions to base, body, and head, with minor fading to black pigment in scattered areas. Nice preservation to figural form. Old inventory label beneath base.