Nazca Polychrome Pottery Bowl w/ Trophy Heads
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Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. A pottery bowl featuring a register of trophy heads around the exterior, and a teardrop shape with 5 white lines- perhaps a hand or other symbol. The surface is highly burnished, and the main ground color is a dark sienna color - not unlike dried blood. Trophy heads are a popular artistic theme for the Nazca; the taking of heads in battle and ritual decapitation was practiced to appease the gods and ensure agricultural prosperity. A bowl like this one would most likely have been a grave good. Size: 6" Diameter x 3" H (15.2 cm x 7.6 cm)
Provenance: ex-private Schuetz collection, Florida, USA; ex-Pook and Pook Auction, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, USA; ex-Wilmar Sick Estate, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, before 2000
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#181573
Provenance: ex-private Schuetz collection, Florida, USA; ex-Pook and Pook Auction, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, USA; ex-Wilmar Sick Estate, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, before 2000
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.
#181573
Condition
Chip to rim with hairline fissure radiating from that area. Some flaking and fading to surface pigment.
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Nazca Polychrome Pottery Bowl w/ Trophy Heads
Estimate $800 - $1,200
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