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ear studs, pair, of hammered and engraved gold; the concave disks with beaded edges are decorated with an applied motif bearing four figures; above, a demi-god with elaborate aureloe headdress riding on a bar borne by three other figures; in one hand he holds a beaker-cup; in the other a bag adorned with loose bangles; two of the lower figures wear modified aureole headdresses and carry beakers; all are half-human, half-beast; the bar on which the demi-god rides is finished at the ends with demon heads; loose bangles are variously applied in the design; the tubes of the ear studs are decorated with engraved bands of cats and birds, and soldered to the backs of discs

Ear Spool, c. 1150-1450

Chimu

G260

cranberry colored textile with purple, yellow, and light tan lines of varying thicknesses; tan lines have metallic thread details

Textile, 18th century

Aymara

G260

Jar, wide-mouthed, in the form of a double-headed snake. Deep, flaring neck with a band of puma heads below the rim. Painted in polychrome. Rim chipped.

Jar, 11th-14th century

Nasca

G260

two photos attached together on back with Scotch tape; view of rugged mountains in background and ruins of Macchu Picchu

%C2%A9 Estate Martin Chambi %2F Martin Chambi Archivo Fotografico. All rights reserved.

Panoramic View of Machu Picchu, Peru, 1934 (printed later)

Peru

G255

llama with long, thin body, neck and legs; straight legs; erect ears; large eyes

Figure of a Llama, 1400-1533

Inca

G255

round body with flattened bottom; u-shaped neck with short spout; decorated with 4 applied angry cat figures and s-shaped swirls

Vessel, 1400-1000 BCE

ChavĂ­n

G255

two figures seated on round body of vessel with plates of food in front of them; spouts protrude from backs of both figures and joins in a "U" shape; beige with maroon highlights

Vessel, c. 100-200

Moche

G255

Stirrup-handle jar in the form of an owl with a fat body. The face, plastically rendered, is painted buff color; the rest of the body is red and burnished.

Vessel, c. 200 BCE - 600 CE

Moche

G260

A Colonial Wood Beaker, A.D.1470-1560 of flaring shape painted in ochre, reddish orange and pale green with a procession of weapon-bearing Inca dignitaries, each clothed in a cape and feathered headdress, followed by two European-attired personages.

Vessel, c. 1470-1560

Inca

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Double-spout vase painted in polychrome with two couchant winged figures. The heads wear an elaborate coiled headdress tipped with plant forms that spring from other parts of the body and from the serpent staff held in left hand of figure. Painted face with long projecting tongue. Wings of figures are decorated with human heads and terminate in feathers.

Vessel, 1st century BCE - 6th century CE

Nasca

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Cup with trophy heads; polychrome earthenware; Peru, Nazca, VIc.; No Dims on Cat. Cards Cup with slightly flaring mouth painted in polychrome with four rows of trophy heads.

Vessel, 6th century

Nasca

G255

Spherical Jar decorated with a horizontal band showing two figures against a background of conventionalized lines representing water. Polychrome painting. Rounded bottom, stand.

Bowl with Swimmer Motifs, 100 BCE - 600 CE

Nasca

G255

Vase in the from of a chieftain with ear plugs and large headdress. Arms bound in back indicate the status of a prisoner.

Vessel, 6th-8th century

Moche

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Ear studs, pair, of hammered and engraved gold. The concave disks iwth beaded edges are decorated with an applied motif bearing four figures. Above, a demi-god with elaborate aureole headdress riding on a bar borne by other three figures. In one hand he holds a beaker-cup; in the other a bag adorned with loose bangles. Two of the lower figures wear modified aureole headdresses and carry beakers. All are half human, half beast. The bar on which the demi-god rides is finished at the ends with demon heads. Loose bangles are variously applied in the design. The tubes of the ear studs are decorated with engraved bands of cats and birds, and soldered to the backs of discs.

Ear Spool, c. 1150-1450

Chimu

G260

Pot in form of Fish with a double spout handle rising from the back. Slight modelling on head, tail, and fin area. Other features painted in grey, black, yellow, red and white. Broken at tail; cracked around head.

Vessel in the Form of a Fish, c. 100 BCE - 600 CE

Nasca

G260

black pot representing Corn God, surrounded by ears of corn; cracked

Vessel, 11th-15th century

Chimu

G255

Large oval jar with the neck representing a human head. The face is slightly modelled, with nose and chin in full relief, but with eyes and hair painted. The upper section of the jar is painted to represent a poncho worn over the shoulders. The poncho is striped vertically in dark brown, rust, and cream on the front and in the back in stripes of dark brown only, possibly to represent the hair of the figure. This jar is interesting as illustrating the manner in which ponchos were worn. Late Nazca per Schoeler--MWS.

Jar, 3rd century BCE - 6th century CE

Nasca

G255

round bodied vessel with rounded bottom; handle with spout; decorated with incised stylized face made of geometric shapes, in black, yellow, red and white

Double spout Vessel, c. 900-200 BCE

Paracas

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red clay vessel decorated in cream and red; C-shaped handle from duck's head to back, with a spout at center

Vessel in the form of a Duck, 1st-8th century

Moche

G260

small fan formed with feathers with quills attached to braided fiber strands tied together; blue feathers with cut feather fragments in orange, white, brown, yellow and blue forming geometric patterns below yellow tips; mounted inside plexi case

Fan, c. 1000

Peru

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Bowl, low, in the form of a crouching jaguar with head modelled in full relief and tail modelled in low relief close to body of jar. Body of jar painted red; eyes, whiskers, and fangs of jaguar in cream. Base of jar pitted and paint flaking off over neck and shoulders.

Bowl, Date Unknown

Moche

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Large portrait head jar with stirrup handle. The face is powerfully modelled with full lips, straight nose, and strongly marked eye sockets. Disk earrings hang from pierced ear lobes. The face of the figure, with the exception of a thin line outlining the eye-socket, is painted brick red. The remainder of the jar is the pale terra cotta color of the body clay. Spout of handle restored.

Portrait head jar, Date Unknown

Moche

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Portrait Jar in form of Seated Figure Playing Pan-Pipes. Hammered and soldered silver, made in at least two parts. A solder line can be tracved horizontallly across the back and shoulders of the figure and across the loewer part of the pipe abr. Stirrup handle at the back of the head.

Portrait Jar, 20th century

Unknown

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long pin-shaped object with scalloped fan shape on top; perforated tube containing 2 metal balls below fan

Hair Ornament, Date Unknown

Peru

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two bulbous chambers with long necks; necks connected with handle; one neck topped with partially reclining cat; other neck has flat ring mouth; four crescent-shaped indenations on each chamber; dark patina

Bottle, 1400-1532

Inca

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unlined; knitted hat with side flaps; horizontal geometric and animal pattern in multicolors; five tassels in pink, green, yellow and purple; tassels on flap sides are multicolored

Hat, 20th century

Unknown

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finely knit; brightly colored with tassels at neck and top; multicolored; design is circular pattern of various sizes and geometric shapes

Hat, 20th century

Unknown

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knit; bonnet part has multicolored motifs on brown; tail is light tan with multicolored motifs; two tassels at end of the tail; two short side flaps

Hat, 20th century

Peru

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pointed shoulder; slightly rounded base; straight top spout; wide, flat handle from spout to shoulder; 3-D bird's head in front of spout; stylized bird wings and tail- flat

Vessel, 15th century

Chimu

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wide black band at center; narrow black bands at long sides; horizontal wide red and narrow white stripes; pairs of blue L shaped stitching on either side of neck opening

Poncho, 18th century

Aymara

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whistling pot, two pots joined by a bridge, one a vessel, one in the shape of an upright cat, black ceramic, Peruvian (Vicus), 400BC - 100AD cat. card dims H 8-1/2'

Whistling pot, 5th century BCE - 2nd century CE

Peru

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globular vessel with face of warrior/King forming the spout; handle atached to back of head has two small faces attached at midpoint; black ceramic

Globular vessel with face of a warrior king on spout, 8th-15th century

Chimu

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figurine, red, cream and brown design earthenware, Peruvian (Nazca), 1-700 AD cat. card dim. H. 4-1/4'

Figurine, 2nd-8th century

Nasca

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one of a pair of whistling huacos, each consisting of two round pots joined by a convex handle, one side decorated with a dove and the other containg a spout; pottery

Whistling Huaco, one of a pair, 11th-15th century

Chancay Chimu

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simplified image of figure wearing yellow shirt in URQ; rectangles forming door and window in blue, green, red, and orange; black and white checkerboard in foreground

Fachada con personaje en ventana (Building facade with figure in window), 1967-68

Teresa Burga

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vertical diptych: oval shaped composition made of similarly-sized torn-out dedication pages from books, with some more yellow-darkened sheets, on a white ground; received in white frames

For To (XI), 2021

Valeska Soares

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silver cigarette case; two step pyramids cut from both front and back; figure of man with square head with hands grasping two bars cut-out at center of step pyramid;

Cigarette Case, 20th century

Peru

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horizontal bands of ornate geometric patterns in coral, black, sky blue, and hunter green; some patterns resemble birds, others are floral; wider coral colored plain stripes; blue neck opening; tucked corners

Poncho, 18th century

Aymara

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two panels with central opening; bands of dark brown with rows of stripes of various widths in rose, pink, olive, yellow, blue, pale green and cream, with bands of brown or red with white in wave designs; central pair of bands with floral motifs in reds, cream and blue

Poncho, 18th century

Aymara

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wool panel with navy, light red, dark red and brown stripes approximately 5/8" in width with thin blue and brown stripes alternating; embroidered border with tiny pink and white diamond shapes around outer edge on all four sides

Textile, 18th century

Aymara

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red textile with white pinstripe; two wider bands of black, white, green, red, blue, teal stripes along short ends

Textile, 18th century

Aymara

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predominately black with red and dark pink stripes at long sides; green border stitching around neck opening

Poncho, 18th century

Aymara

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small blanket with brown and checkered pinstripes; wider coral band down C, between two wider blue bands; coral, tan, and white borders at short ends

Textile, 18th century

Aymara

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Stirrup-handle jar with painted design of a mythical creature, half fish, half jaguar, in rust red on the panel of cream slip covering one half of the jar.

Vessel, 5th-6th century

Moche

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Cup, with a painted band of stylized plants edged with polka dots. Solid brick-colored base. Mouth nicked.

Cup, 3rd century BCE - 6th century CE

Nasca

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Tumi with Hummingbird, copper. Arms and Armor-Edged Weapon

Knife (Tumi), 1150-1450

Chimu

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globular vessel, flat base, stirrup with centrally located vertical spout; 2 raised deer figures on cream slip background; base, deer, and spouts polished red clay

Globular vessel, 8th-10th century

late Moche

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Stirrup Jar with spout; smooth protrusions over surface of jar and spout; surface marked in bark-like design; black-ware

Vessel, 13th-6th century BCE

ChavĂ­n

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Stirrup spout Vessel, seated male figurine with stirrup spout attached to rear, connecting head and lower section; figure painted brown, stirrup cream; red ceramic.

Vessel in the form of a seated man, 5th-8th century

Moche

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white cotton tie-dyed in brown; plain weave, wave-lines, and spots

Panel, c. 1300

Wari

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Cup with painted designs in yellow, red and white; from top down band of geometric designs, band of figures and animals, band of stylized birds and geometric shapes, band of stylized flowers and birds

Vessel, 1300-1550

Inca

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Bottle in form of a Woman's figure holding a human head . Upper body of polished cream slip. Lower area of dark red with a band of stylized human heads painted in polychrome. Nose, teeth arms, and accessory head modelled, other details painted. The spout, emerging from back of shoulders, is a bridged to top of head by a narrow band which forms the handle of jug. Rounded bottom, stand.

Vessel in the form of a man, 3rd century BCE - 6th century CE

Nasca

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ceramic-pottery. Square stirrup vessel with 3 figures on top, representing a male, a female, and a child. Brown in color. Male figures head is protruding out from vessel.

Vessel, 2nd century BCE - 2nd century CE

Moche

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Double spout water jar decorated in polychrome with two large fishes in their mouths. Frieze of peppers below.

Vessel, 100 BCE- 600 CE

Nasca

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Jar modeled in three sections, representing fruits, with three loop handles attached to base of spout. Burnished surface decorated with vertical panels of stylized birds alternating with panels of horizontal zigzag lines in black on a brown ground.

Vessel in the form of vegetables, 6th-15th century

Lambayeque

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stirrup pot with a warrior sitting cross-legged on top; figures painted in red on cream

Vessel, 2nd century BCE- 7th century CE

Moche

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Jar, aryballos type, with two handles near base. A diminutive animal head in relief appears at the base of the neck. The front of the body is decorated with vertical panels separated by narrow bands, painted with lozenge and sawtooth motifs in red, black, mauve and white. The flaring neck is painted with horizontal bands of elongated lozenges in red and black, and under the rim is a border of reciprocal sawtooth pattern in the same colors. The back of the jar is painted brick red with a band of interlocking 'X' forms extending half-way around the shoulders. Aryballos (MWS)

Vessel, 15th century

Inca

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Cup on stem, silver, Peruvian XXc (?) cat. card dims H 4-3/4 x diam 3'. Cup has two handles, pendant Peruvian coins.

Cup, 19th-20th century

Peru

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cup shape with flaring mouth; lightly incised decoration, painted in green, tan, orange and off-white; geometric and floral designs with man leading a pack animal and a woman following around mouth

Qero (kero), 1300-1550

Inca

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Assymetrical Globular Vessel, flat base, convex shape, slightly outflaring spout; two attached handles in the form of monkeys opposed diametrically on shoulder on either side of spout; red clay fired red to black, cream slip in shoulder below spout

Asymetrical globular vessel, 8th-11th century

late Moche and early Chimu

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Black pot with double spout handle at top. In the side panels, two foxes in relief on a ground of all-over granular dots in relief.

Pot, 12th century

Chimu

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PR hand in a loose fist and forearm with reflective metal disk on palm of hand; back of hand, top of fingers and wrist carved with horizontal bands of geometric and organic designs

Hand with Mirror, 1100

Chimu

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Large vase with a figure in relief representing the god of corn, standing between two peaks of the Sierras. This symbolical representation of the mountain peaks grew out of the fact that often only patch of snow on them are visible at a distance. Shape Vicus (?).

Jar, 4th century

Moche

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Pot in the form of a warrior in full regalia. Painted details on costume and face.

Vessel, 5th-6th century

Moche

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Polychrome Round Pot with double spout linked by bridge; design shows large pelican about to eat 3 small black and white killer whales on red background

Double spout jar, 3rd century BCE - 7th century CE

Nasca

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interlocked tapestry, made in two pieces but woven perpendicular to way it would be worn, seamed down the middle; predominate colors ochre, tan pink, dark brown; one blue area, two red areas; repeated 'puma' motif

Tunic, 600-1200

Wari

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Straight 'handle' flaring out to a thinner, fan-shaped blade

Knife, 8th-10th century

Lambayeque

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Stirrup-handle jar in the form of a llama with saddle bags slung over back. The body and saddle bags are painted terra cotta color with details of head, halter, and binding ropes in buff. Ears in relief, featues slightly modelled.

Effigy vessel, 200-600

Moche

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Double-spout vase with a band carrying two Pumas painted in polychrome on a white ground. Note the spotted body of the Puma and the long projecting tongue, characteristic of this beast in Nazca pottery and textiles.

Vessel, 3rd century BCE - 6th century CE

Nasca

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double spouted vessel with bridge between spouts on which stand two small figures; white pottery

Whistling Vessel, 11th-15th century

Chimu

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square cap; knotted, with supplementary pile, knotted fibers overlaid with cut woolen pile, forming two rows of 18 squares; avain and camelid animals oppose each other in alternating colors; plain top with tubular cornered peaks

Hat, c. 850 CE

Wari

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Stirrup-handle jar with a crab modelled in full relief on top. The crab is painted in reddish brown with details in cream on a cream slip ground. Lower part of jar painted in the same reddish brown and burnished.

Vessel with Lobster Motif, 400-499

Moche

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Bowl decorated with painted panels on body and a narrow border around rim. In the body area double rows of human figures, holding weapons and marching in file, alternating with double rows of stylized floral forms. In the border are short lines in groups of three flanking and surrounding groups of dots in threes which represent a dissolved conception of the human head. Border in white, yellow and red on brownish ground; body panels in colors of cream ground. Panels set off from border and from each other by narrow bands edged with black. Rounded base. H. 2 3/4 in.; diameter across mouth 4 1/4"

Bowl with warrior motif, 3rd century BCE - 6th century CE

Nasca

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Beaker with painted frieze of long-necked white birds and snakes. Rounded bottom, stand.

Beaker, 100 BCE - 600 CE

Nasca

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Jug, stirrup handle, painted.with a design of two running messengers, in full regalia, carrying weapons and wearing elaborate puma-head helmets. The area between the warriors is filled with the spreading wints fanning out behind each body. The design is in rust red on a cream slip, and the red is used on a series of double lines decorating the spout and the stirrup handle. Handle repaired. Something inside of jug, perhaps loose debris.

Vessel, c. 400 BCE - 599 CE

Moche

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Large ceremonial vase representing a human figure holding a drinking cup against breast. The face is painted for ritual purposes, with features somewhat crudely modelled. With this vase was found the bowl, 43.2.20, in which it stood.

Large ceremonial vase, 11th-15th century

Chancay Chimu

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Shallow bowl to hold ceremonial vase, 43.2.19. Vase and bowl were found together in the same grave.

Shallow bowl, 11th-15th century

Chancay Chimu

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Pot with Spout and Handle, painted ceramic, Peruvian (Moche), 100 - 300AD cat. card dims H 8-3/4; single spout and handle; painted with murals.

Vessel, 2nd-4th century

Moche

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Large ovoid jar representing a crouching human figure whose head forms neck of vase. All details except nose and turban headdress painted in polychrome on polished red ground. Rounded bottom, stand.

Vessel, 3rd century BCE - 6th century CE

Nasca

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White hour glass-shaped cloth with area of brown discontinuous supplementary weft-patterning on one side. The pattern is stepped, with diagonal bands of scrolls, zig zags, animals and arrows. Probably a loincloth.

Loincloth, Date Unknown

Peru

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Fish, 1960

Espinoza

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Jug with thick stirrup handle and incised jaguar design on two sides.

Stirrup vessel with Jaguar designs, 10th-3rd century BCE

ChavĂ­n

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polychrome jar with handle, geometric design in red, brown, and cream, red ceramic, Peruvian(Nazca), 200 BC-1000 AD cat. card dim.; H 5-1/4'

Polychrome jar, 3rd century BCE - 11th century CE

Nasca or Tiwanaku

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polychrome vessel with 2 side handles, design painted along upper half; red ceramic; design in red, black and cream

Polychrome vessel, 3rd-15th century

Nasca or Tiwanaku

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globular vessel with animal form (dog?) on top, ceramic, Peruvian (N. Coast), Pre-Columb. cat. card dims H 3-1/4'

Globular vessel, Date Unknown

Peru

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ceramic object in shape of chambered nautilis; red ceramic

Chambered nautilis, Date Unknown

Peru

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Jug with 2 Animals in Relief; polychromed ceramic, Peruvian (Vicus), 400BC-100AD cat. card dims H 10 x W 7-1/2 x D 5-1/4' at bottom

Jug with animal relief, 5th century BCE - 2nd century CE

Peru

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Stirrup jar with an abstract design of spirals and stepped motives in rust red on a cream slip ground.

Stirrup jar, Date Unknown

Moche

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Stirrup Vessel Pot small bird next to spout body of pot is a half-moon shape divided into sections (pacal fruit); blackware

Vessel, 15th-16th century

Chimu

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tan cloth with simple light tan geometric designs; cone shaped shells sewn to bottom edge; brown ties made of gauzy fabric; mounted inside a plexi case

Headband, Date Unknown

Peru

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vase in the shape of a woman holding a child on each side of her; white and black polychromed potterydims H 7-1/4'

Vase in the shape of a woman holding a child, 8th century

Tiwanaku

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stirrup vessel with warrior motif painted on each side, polychromed earthenware, Peru, Moche no dims. on cat. cards; 200BC-700AD

Stirrup spout vessel, 3rd century BCE - 8th century CE

Moche

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large piece of dark blue lace; mounted on gold burlap; framed and glazed

Panel, 11th-14th century

Chancay Chimu

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Whistling jar, double, in the shape of a parrot; stirrup handle. Painted details on wings and head.

Whistling jar, Date Unknown

Moche

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Large cup or bowl with slightly flared mouth and all-over design of checked and plain squares about 1/2 in. in area alternating in rows around sides. Such purely geometrical designs are rare in Nazca pottery.

Large cup, 100 BCE - 600 CE

Nasca

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Bird-shaped whistle-vase with a single upright spout emerging from the back and connected by a handle with the head. The eyes of the bird are painted, but the beak is modelled. Across the breast a double row of worms painted in polychrome. Highly conventionalized wings painted on each side. Tiahuanico influence.

Vessel in the Form of a Bird, c. 100 BCE - 600 CE

Nasca

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Large vase with shallow flared neck painted in polychrome, with two stylized pumas. Rigid ring handles on shoulders, one of the two missing.

Vase with puma motif, 3rd century BCE - 6th century CE

Nasca

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Portrait jar with lips puckered and wrinkled face indicted by swirling incised lines. Pendant earrings of animal design, head completely open at top.

Portrait jar, Date Unknown

Moche

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Pot with Spout and Handle, body is animal head (monkey?) spout has a man's head; blackware

Pot with spout and handle, 10th-15th century

Chimu

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erotic ceramic object (fertility fetish), Peruvian (N. Coast), Pre-Columbian cat. card dims L 6'

Erotic ceramic object depicting human figures copulating, Date Unknown

Peru

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