Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE; North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 400 to 800 CE; Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A gathering of 2 hand-built pottery vessels as well as a textile fragment constructed with tightly woven camelid fibers. The Michoacan bottle has a slender, egg-shaped body with a tapered spout and incised striations, and the Moche canteen has a carinated body with a minimalist feline as one of the handles. The Chimu textile fragment features 4 full and 2 partial panels with concentric stepped motifs in red and yellow hues. Size of largest (Moche canteen): 6.1" W x 7" H (15.5 cm x 17.8 cm)

Provenance: private Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA collection; ex-private Arkansas, USA collection, via descent in 2021; ex-private Florida estate, USA, acquired from the 1960s to 1970s

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#171664

Canteen has 2 perforations to base; bottle has small chips to rim and handle; and textile panel is a fragment of a larger composition. Nice preservation to color of textile and to overall forms of pottery vessels.