Chorrera Pottery Figural Musician Vessel
Chorrera Pottery Figural Musician Vessel
Chorrera Pottery Figural Musician Vessel
Chorrera Pottery Figural Musician Vessel
Chorrera Pottery Figural Musician Vessel
Chorrera Pottery Figural Musician Vessel
Chorrera Pottery Figural Musician Vessel

Chorrera Pottery Figural Musician Vessel

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Ecuador, Circa 800 to 500 BC.

A good size vessel with a seated figural form, probably a musical warrior effigy, with good strong facial features, hands raised and holding a pan pipes or ocarina, wearing a smooth helmet atop head and rounded ear ornaments; strap handle and spout behind. Overall surface painted in red slip and burnished.

Size 8-3/4 inches (22 cm) H. 

Ex Liegeoise private collection


Cp. A. Lapiner, Pre Columbian Art of South America, 1976, Abrams no. 722 for a similar example and compare Amerindian Signs, 5000 Years of Pre Columbian Art in Ecuador by Valdez for the type. Compare similar example in Ancient Ecuador; Culture, Clay and Creativity 3000-300 BC, for further examples. 

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