Choice and rare mythological vessel ·  Peru, southern coast, Paracas · ID: 3038646

Description

fired clay, polychrome painted (yellow ochre, red, blackish-brown), the inside decorated with the incised image of a skull-like face with snake-like extensions, interior and exterior walls with stylized geometric decor, rounded at the bottom, rep., fine cracks at the rim, slightly dam.

Littérature comparée

Anders, Ferdinand, Peru durch die Jahrtausende, Recklinghausen 1984, p. 258, ill. 3.7