Nazca Polychrome Effigy Canteen Flask with Modeled HeadPre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca,...
Nazca Polychrome Effigy Canteen Flask with Modeled HeadPre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100–600 CE. A globular canteen whose slender neck becomes a face: ringed eyes, a pinched nose, and a broad banded mouth beneath a checkered headband. The rounded body carries the wearer's garment in slip paint, arcing stripes of cream, orange, oxblood, and near-black falling over the shoulders like the drape of a poncho, closed by a red hem band ticked with vertical white strokes above an unpainted burnished lower register. Two perforated lug handles at the shoulders allowed the vessel to be suspended or carried on a cord. Such figural flasks held liquid, likely chicha, and were placed as offerings in coastal Peruvian burials. An uncommon form within the Nazca ceramic repertoire. Size: 5" Diam x 6.75" H (12.7 cm Diam x 17.1 cm H).
Nazca potters worked without glaze, achieving their spectrum from mineral slips applied before a single low firing and burnished to a soft sheen; their palette, running to a dozen or more distinct tones, is the broadest of any Pre-Columbian ceramic tradition. Here the painter has used that range for a documentary purpose, transcribing an actual textile onto clay. Andean weaving carried rank and affiliation, and the striped poncho with its bordered hem records a garment the modeled figure would have worn in life. The flask's lug handles echo the leather and gourd canteens carried across the arid south coast, a practical form elevated into an image of a person.
Provenance: Ex. Collection of Leo and Beatrice Drimmer, acquired in the 1960’s. To family by descent.
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Item #73202Some minor paint wear on his head and right eye, otherwise intact.
Nazca Polychrome Effigy Canteen Flask with Modeled HeadPre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100–600 CE. A globular canteen whose slender neck becomes a face: ringed eyes, a pinched nose, and a broad banded mouth beneath a checkered headband. The rounded body carries the wearer's garment in slip paint, arcing stripes of cream, orange, oxblood, and near-black falling over the shoulders like the drape of a poncho, closed by a red hem band ticked with vertical white strokes above an unpainted burnished lower register. Two perforated lug handles at the shoulders allowed the vessel to be suspended or carried on a cord. Such figural flasks held liquid, likely chicha, and were placed as offerings in coastal Peruvian burials. An uncommon form within the Nazca ceramic repertoire. Size: 5" Diam x 6.75" H (12.7 cm Diam x 17.1 cm H).
Nazca potters worked without glaze, achieving their spectrum from mineral slips applied before a single low firing and burnished to a soft sheen; their palette, running to a dozen or more distinct tones, is the broadest of any Pre-Columbian ceramic tradition. Here the painter has used that range for a documentary purpose, transcribing an actual textile onto clay. Andean weaving carried rank and affiliation, and the striped poncho with its bordered hem records a garment the modeled figure would have worn in life. The flask's lug handles echo the leather and gourd canteens carried across the arid south coast, a practical form elevated into an image of a person.
Provenance: Ex. Collection of Leo and Beatrice Drimmer, acquired in the 1960’s. To family by descent.
SHIPPING: We coordinate worldwide shipping in-house through specialist international forwarders experienced with fine art and antiquities customs manifests. International buyers must confirm, prior to bidding, that their country's customs authority will accept the item. All duties, taxes, clearance fees, and any costs arising from customs delays, seizures, re-export, returns, or loss in transit are the buyer's sole responsibility. Artemis assumes no liability for items refused entry, detained, or lost after export. We cannot ship ancient items to their country of origin (Egyptian to Egypt, Greek to Greece, etc.).
PAYMENT EXCEPTION: For clients not previously established with Artemis, payment for all gold, precious metal, and gemstone lots must be made by bank wire transfer or certified bank check/money order, without exception.
Item #73202Some minor paint wear on his head and right eye, otherwise intact.
