**Originally Listed At $400**

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 205 BCE to 125 CE. A hand-built and highly-burnished human effigy vessel of a seated man with a quasi-cylindrical body and a projecting ovoid head with a spout emerging from behind the head. The visage is elaborately decorated with a trophy-head-adorned headband which frames his face along with a thin chin strap, and two painted arms extend from a thick neck. A pair of wiry wings embellish the verso, flanking either side of a now-missing strap handle. While most of the details are painted in a polychrome scheme of espresso, citrine, burgundy, wheat, and toffee, the legs and arms are slightly three-dimensional due to intended bulges in the pottery. Figural forms like this example are relatively rare in Nazca art, making this a special vessel indeed! Size: 8.75" H (22.2 cm).

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection

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#130618

Losses to strap handle and portion of spout. Expected age-commensurate surface wear and abrasions with a large hairline fissure on the verso starting just below the spout. Small areas of roughness around face and base, fading to pigmentation, otherwise very good. Great earthen deposits, mineral deposits, and burnishing throughout.