Description: Terracotta. Peru, Chavín culture, ca. 500 BCE
This vessel has a flat bottom and the smooth, lower half of the body is conical, the upper half arched, its nubs plastic and the background pattern composed of densely strung-together grooves. The tall, smooth neck is tapered and the bulging lip flared. The Chavín culture was located in the Peruvian highlands of the Eastern Andes and probably experienced its golden age between 850 and 200 BCE.
Dimensions: HEIGHT 19.5 CM
Condition: Brown color, chips around the mouth, otherwise very good condition for its age
Provenance: Formerly in the Lüders Collection (Austria), acquired around 1970