Antique Chancay Peruvian Clay Sculpture A standing clay figure with short outstretched arms and wearing a rectangular flattened headdress with a decorated lower border, an eye mask, and with two crossed bands across the torso. The figurehas a white slip with the decorationin dark brown. Chimú pottery is generally a lustrous, burnished black from firing in a reducing atmosphere, while Chancay ceramics were white-slipped, painted using a palette of simple earth tones, and fired in an oxidizing atmosphere. Dimensions: 10 1/2” T X 7” W