Pre-Columbian, Chancay Poly Chrome Figure on Litter - Rare!, Ca 1000 to 1470, #1134 Sold cowboys_on_horses larger cobalt beads

larger cobalt beads

5 inches wide and has 8 rows of beads

"The art of pottery making was taught to me by my mother

the Ocean Woman

Blue-and-white Glaze Tradition The blue-and-white style has been the most popular type of ceramic glaze since it was developed in the middle of the fifteenth century (virtually simultaneously in China and in Vietnam)

Pre-Columbian, Chancay Poly Chrome Figure on Litter - Rare!, Ca 1000 to 1470, #1134 Sold cowboys_on_horses larger cobalt beadsPre Columbian, Chancay Poly chrome Figure on Litter Rare! #1134 Description: #1134 Pre Columbian, Chancay Poly chrome Figure on Litter Rare! Central Coast Peru, Chancay, Ca. 1000 to 1470 CE. A poly chrome terracotta depiction of a member of the elite strapped (note the horizontal striations over his body) to his elaborate deathbed litter, adorned with rows of concentric circles, perhaps representing seeds or eggs signifying the circle of life. He