Blackware CHIMU or MOCHICA face jug

FIGURAL PRE-COLUMBIAN BLACKWARE VESSEL
(libation jug), PERU,
CHIMU or MOCHICA, 1200 - 1500.

Face, hands, slightly flared vertical spout, strap handle;
'equator", round base, slightly flattened. Overall surface wear, shallow chip and crack to handle

Height : 7" x 5" x 5"

Provenance : inherited from a professor in the area around Peru's Jequetapeque (or "Oquetapeque") valley, according to the client, his stepson, who recalls time spent there in 1978 and 1963

# j mlls 17001 ....................................................SOLD