Nazca Polychrome Pottery Bowl - Bird Eating Fish
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Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 600 CE. A fantastic pottery bowl hand-painted with the image of a bird catching a fish. The long neck and webbed feet suggest a waterfowl such as a cormorant. The iconography of birds feeding on fish and snakes was popular in Nazca art- likely a symbol of their fishing prowess or religious beliefs. Many coastal cultures believed that the ocean was the watery world of the ancestors where life began and ended. Size: 9" Diameter x 3.5" H (22.9 cm x 8.9 cm)
Provenance: Ex-private Schuetz collection, Florida, USA; ex-Arte Primitivo, New York, USA, July 1, 2023; ex-Alan C. Lapiner collection, Arts of the Four Quarters, acquired prior to 1969
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#183983
Provenance: Ex-private Schuetz collection, Florida, USA; ex-Arte Primitivo, New York, USA, July 1, 2023; ex-Alan C. Lapiner collection, Arts of the Four Quarters, acquired prior to 1969
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
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#183983
Condition
Repaired from many pieces with infill and overpainting along break lines. Chips and nicks to surface. Repairs are professionally done, with nice preservation to the motifs.
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Nazca Polychrome Pottery Bowl - Bird Eating Fish
Estimate $1,200 - $1,800
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