Description: A rare Paracas pottery bowl decorated with decorated by a strange smiling character with a large head, from which 4 snakes, two of them of large size, run along the internal walls of the vessel. On the opposite side, the character's body appears simplified and tight so it can fit. In his hand he holds a kind of ceremonial scepter. On the outside appears a frieze of geometric patterns framed by black and yellow polychromy. Includes thermoluminescence certificate. | Paracas. Peru. 700-300 BC.