Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. A jar with a flattened base and an apple-shaped body, with a conical spout and a flattened handle that rises from the broad shoulder to the middle of the spout. In classic Nazca style, it is decorated with broad bands of color and black outlined two-dimensional shapes. Around the shoulder, painted as if dangling from the white ring at the base of the spout, are several white and red alternating chili peppers. Nazca pottery, thin-walled and well-formed, with abstract designs in strong contrast to the realism of its contemporary to the north, the Moche, is known from underground burial chambers. This jar was made to be placed in a grave, perhaps full of offerings or symbolic libations like sand. Size: 5" W x 6.5" H (12.7 cm x 16.5 cm)

Provenance: Ex-Private Joan Hersey Pavao Collection, acquired in the 1970's

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#118194

Large chip to rim as shown and some wear to paint.