Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel
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Nazca (Nasca) Polychrome Pottery Globular Vessel

17755

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Early Intermediate Period, circa 100–500 AD.

Southern coast of Peru, lovely hand-built and decorated with fine slip pigments before firing, the vessel features a vibrant polychrome composition centering on the Anthropomorphic Mythical Being or Mythic Feline, a central deity in Nazca iconography associated with agricultural fertility, spiritual power, and warfare. The creature is depicted with a wide feline face, cat-like whiskers, prominent staring eyes, and a mouth mask, holding a staff-like implement in one clawed hand and flanked by stylized trophy heads and decorative body panels. Functionally, double-spout and bridge vessels served as elite ritual containers and high-status funerary offerings placed in tombs to secure ancestral favor and accompany the deceased into the afterlife. A closely related comparative example is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Accession Number: 1996.174, Double-spout bottle with flying figure, Nazca, c. 300–500 AD), which showcases a similar polychrome execution, double-spout design, and iconographic arrangement.  Condition: Some surface spalls, and restoration to painted surface and with dendrite deposits and wear/ erosion.
Size 8-1/2 inches H. 
Estate of  Rael Gleitsman. MFA Cermaics RISD, Fall River MA  02720, Acquired 1980s.

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