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Nazca Polychrome Pottery Vessel w/ Birds

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Description

Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel with an undecorated white-ground lower body and a red-ground upper body adorned with a procession of 8 left-facing birds, perhaps the Puna tinamou (Tinamotis pentlandii, also Pentland's tinamou). Size: 5.3" L x 5.6" W x 4.125" H (13.5 cm x 14.2 cm x 10.5 cm)

Provenance: private southern California, USA collection, acquired March 2005; ex-Arte Xibalba, Osprey, Florida, USA; ex-Tom Richardson collection, Moline, Illinois, USA; ex-Bill Schneider collection, San Francisco, California, USA

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Condition

Professional repair and restoration to base, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Abrasions and scattered pitting, with minor fading to original pigment, otherwise in nice condition. Great preservation of avian motif.