Pre-Columbian Nazca Painted Ceramic Bowl with Anthropomorphic Feline

CIRCA 400-1000 A.D.

14 3/8 in. (21 grams, 11 cm diameter).

The polychrome bowl with tapering sidewall, everted rim and rounded base, decorated with an anthropomorphic animal, likely a feline with large whiskers, its tail and head emerging at opposite sides of the bowl, and a 'mythical' face to either side. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Ex private U.K. family collection formed in the early 1970s.
The property of Mr and Mrs P.R. of East Sussex.
Thence by descent to family members.

Literature

Cf. The British Museum, museum number Am1914,0731.12, for a comparable design; cf. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, accession number M.71.73.246, for a comparable example.

CONDITION

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