Pre-Columbian, Peru, Northern Highlands, Cajamarca, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A lovely pair of round-bottomed Cajamarca bowls from northern Peru made from an orange tinted kaolin, the exterior walls decorated with a register of bold, diamond-shaped patterns painted in chocolate brown against a white ground and bordered by a thick red line on the bottom and a thin chocolate brown line near the rim, the inner rim adorned with a thick red border. Very nice pottery bowls created by the ancients of the Andes. Size: 9.75" W x 4.5" H (24.8 cm x 11.4 cm)

Provenance: Ex-California Museum of Ancient Art

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#115302

Large bowl with stable fissure to side wall and somewhat 'squished' form with resulting smudge to paint on one side and small round indentations on the other. Smaller bowl intact with minor surface wear as shown.