**Originally Listed At $500**

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 400 CE. Full of personality, this human effigy vessel of a seated man with a quasi-cylindrical body and an ovoid head with a bridge spout handle joining the head to the back (the spout emerging from the head) is elaborately decorated with an avian-inspired chocolate brown headdress framing his face, possessing abstract plumes that also trail down his back and a grand golden pectoral. While most of the details are painted in a polychrome scheme of chocolate brown, cream, russet red, and golden orange, the facial features are nicely modeled. Figural forms like this example are relatively rare in Nazca art. This vessel would have been used for drinking fermented chicha, a type of corn beer, during special rituals and/or placed into a burial to hold offerings. A special example indeed! Size: 5.25" in diameter x 8.625" H (13.3 cm x 21.9 cm)

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private R. Gill collection of Orlando, Florida, USA

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Probe hole to top of head. Head repaired with some visible fissures, loss to spout. A few nicks and scuffs to surface here and there. Overall vivid painting with strong pigments.