Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A beautiful, hand-built pottery jar of an attractive form bearing a rounded but stable base, a piriform body with tapered walls, and a slender rim surrounding the deep basin cavity. Adorning the top of the walls is a register of dense crosshatching filled with miniscule stippling. Swirling across the main body are several abstract saurian creatures, each bearing large eyes and either red- or cream-hued bodies outlined in black. Size: 4.2" Diameter x 3.4" H (10.7 cm x 8.6 cm)

Provenance: private Van Buskirk collection, Tucson, Arizona, USA, acquired December 13, 2017; ex-Gorny & Mosch, Germany (auction 252, part of lot 782); ex-private W.B. collection, Baden-Wurttemberg, acquired 1930 to 1962

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#168336

One stable hairline fissure along area of lower body, with minor chips and abrasions to base, walls, and rim, and fading to pigment in some areas, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation to painted motifs throughout. Old inventory labels beneath base.