Bowl · Peru, Nazca · ID: 3033234
sold
EUR 700
Provenance
Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, München, 26.6.1987, lot 630Theo and Hildegard Oberle, Cologne, Germany
Size
D: 18 cm
D: 7.1 inch
Description
fired clay, painted with condor motifs, drilled hole in the bottom, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
the painting is polychrome as the Nazca artists had managed to develop a whole series of fireresisting colours applied to vessels before firing. The themes chosen are affected by a strong symbolism but do not show any individual representations of princes, priests or warriors.