Moche Bi-chrome Figural Jar w/ Seated Shaman

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A finely preserved example of a hand-built pottery jar with a planar base, a bulbous body with a tapering profile and a sloped shoulder, a broad cylindrical neck, and a thick rim surrounding the interior cavity. The front of the vessel body depicts a red-slipped shaman in a seated meditative pose who has a red-and-white skirt, an incised pectoral necklace divided into sixteen rectangular segments, and a slender rattle with five hanging rattle balls. The broad countenance features coffee-bean-shaped eyes with closed lids, an aquiline nose, thin lips flanked with shallow nasolabial folds, and protruding ears, and the entire figure is huddled beneath a hooded, cream-hued cloak. Size: 6" W x 8.625" H (15.2 cm x 21.9 cm)

Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-Mary K.F. Leong collection, Washington, USA, acquired between 1970 and 1990 from The Lands Beyond Gallery, New York, New York, USA

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Condition Report: Minor abrasions to figure, neck, rim, peripheries, and verso, with fading to areas of original pigmentation, and light encrustations, otherwise intact and excellent. Light earthen deposits and wonderful traces of original pigment throughout.