Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche / Sican / Lambayeque, ca. 400 to 800 CE. A wonderful blackware effigy stirrup vessel representing a frog in a somewhat transitional style, the frog showing Moche stylings, the stirrup and spout forms more characteristic of the Sican/Lambayeque. The ancients of the Andes represented virtually all aspects of their environs and daily life in their pottery. The frog or 'rana' (in Spanish) was a very symbolic animal of the Pre-Columbian world, signifying water and rain and all the sustenance that it provides, and by extension, fertility. This adorable amphibian is delineated with remarkable detail - those bulging eyes, that ripply throat looking as if he is about to croak, and the intricate contours of its body. A lively example in a stunning, lustrous blackware finish. Size: 7.25" L x 7.875" H (18.4 cm x 20 cm)

Provenance: Ex - Reid Collection

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Probe hole in left eye and nearly invisible nicks to rim, else choice.