A Nazca jar

A Nazca jar

Peru, circa 50 - 450 AD

terracotta, the neck with a moulded human face wearing a hat painted with crosses and with strands of hair, to a globular body painted a pair of arms and an elliptical patterned poncho, the base with a white painted collection number N340,

30cm high.

Provenance

Arthur M. Sackler Collection, 1913 - 1987.

ArtAncient, London, 1 Feb 2016.

Romy Rey Collection, London.

Published

Art of the Andes Pre-Columbian Sculpted and Painted Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, p.265.

Exhibited

The City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, 15 August 1983 - 2 October 1983.

Bayley Art Museum, University of Virginia, 15 November 1983 - 15 January 1984.