Description:

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A fine pair of Nazca pottery vessels, each adorned with vibrant polychrome decoration. The first, a flared kero-form cup, features bold vertical striations in red, white, and black across a divided lower body. The second, a shallow bowl set upon a ring base, is embellished with a continuous register of stylized avian figures rendered in profile. Together, these vessels exemplify the Nazca tradition’s mastery of form and color, their designs reflecting both aesthetic sophistication and symbolic expression rooted in Andean cosmology.Size of bowl: 7.5" Diameter x 3" H (19 cm x 7.6 cm); kero: 3.75" W x 5.25" H (9.5 cm x 13.3 cm)

The kero has been analyzed using Thermoluminescence Testing (TL) and has been found to be ancient and of the period stated. A full printed report from Laboratory Kotalla will accompany the item upon purchase.

PROVENANCE: private Colorado, USA collection; bowl: ex-private Newark, New Jersey, USA collection; ex-Origine Auction, December 14, 2016

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Item # 196973

  • Condition: Good. Kero cup has a TL test hole on the base and TL test hole on the interior of rim. Chips and losses to the rim and interior. Chips and small gouges to the exterior of the neck and globular body. Bowl is intact and excellent.

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