Chancay Jaguar Cantaro

A Pre-Columbian Chancay cantaro vase with a modeled jaguar figure on neck of the spout, flanked by two curved loop handles, decorated with a series of black on white abstract animal heads with two pairs of feet and a zig-zag tail in the center

Peru, Central Coast,

Ca. 1100 - 1430 AD.

Height: 19 in. (48.2 cm).

In the Pacific coast valleys north of what is nowLima, the Chancay people produced distinctive pottery and ceramic figures with a wide variety of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic motifs.

Formerly in a Belgian private collection.

Inv#: 9301

Guaranteed Authentic

$15,000