Chavin Pottery Bottle w/ Incised Motifs

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1000 to 200 BCE. A fine example of a hand-built brownware pottery bottle with a planar base, a bell-shaped body with a gently rounded shoulder, a lightly corseted neck base beneath a tapered cylindrical neck, and a flared rim. The body is densely adorned with incised linear striations that form a large, repeating register of tall diamonds, and the spaces in-between are filled with pecked stippling. The original color of the vessel was a russet red hue as seen on some scattered areas of the body and neck. Size: 5.1" W x 7.4" H (13 cm x 18.8 cm)

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, collected from the 1950s to the 1960s

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#152627 Dimensions: Condition Report: Minor abrasions and encrustations on base, body, neck, and rim, with fading to original pigmentation, and softening to some areas of incised details, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits throughout, and great remaining incised details on body.