Double spout vessel, ca. 400 AD · Peru, Nazca · ID: 3039255
sold
EUR 1,200
Provenance
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)Size
H: 20 cm
H: 7.9 inch
Description
fired clay, polychrome colours, painted with the grotesque face of a demon, his winged body provided with human legs and a long tail, a cut off head (trophee head) underneath, slightly dam., paint flaked off in parts
Comparing literature
Anders, Ferdinand, Peru durch die Jahrtausende, Recklinghausen 1984, p. 288, ill. 6.5