Chancay Pottery Bowl Group - Four Buff-Slipped Conical Dishes

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay. A group of four pottery bowls, each of a rounded flaring form with a buff slipped surface, three raised on low ring feet with stamped dimpled bases and one resting on a rounded bottom. One bowl carries a single black stripe painted across the interior, and another shows scattered dark deposits and remains of pigment banding at the rim. Open bowls of this type served as everyday and mortuary vessels and are found in quantity in the cemeteries of Peru's central coast. Item # 204280

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