Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery ritual watering vessel known as a paccha with a bulky trapezoidal body, a rounded but stable base, and a stepped upper platform upon which sits a stylized anthropomorphic trumpet player. Covered in brown and cream-hued pigment, the vessel body features a broad brown stripe as well as 5 abstract avian creatures in low relief, 1 on the front and a row of 4 on the verso. Beneath the verso of the body is a petite spout from a priest would pour water across the fields as a fertility ritual. The trumpet player sits with bent knees beneath a lengthy tunic while holding the mouthpiece of a trumpet to pursed lips; a cylindrical spout with a flared rim doubles as the musician's cap. Size: 5.1" W x 8.4" H (13 cm x 21.3 cm)

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection, before 2010; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, acquired in the 1950s to 1960s

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#173443

Professional repair and restoration, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Abrasions, chipping, and fading to pigment commensurate with age, with softening to some finer details of trumpet player and birds, and a couple of small spalls. Nice preservation to overall form of trumpet player.