These hand made earthenware jars are crafted by the Shipibo artisans living in the Amazon. The thin walls are elegantly hand constructed. Beautifully painted with fine Shipibo artistic patterns, typical of their work. Each vase has a slightly different design due to the hand made nature.
For the Shipibo, pottery is distinctly female work. Quempo is how the Shipibo refers to this type of flaring bowl, also known in the jungle as mocahua. It is used to drink Masato, a thick, yucca-based drink, and for other fluids and therefore has external water-related motifs. The thin walls of this bowl are elegantly constructed so that the rim is narrower than the body.
A face is painted over slight protrusions of pottery for the eyes, nose, chin, and ears. Beautifully painted with fine Shipibo artistic patterns, typical of their work. Made by Shipibo women of Amazonia.
These ceramic polychrome vessel with a human face in high relief at the top of the neck. A dark, earthy red, flat base terminates abruptly in a brown ring and then gives way to a creamy color decorated with labyrinthine lines and a projecting human face below a slightly flared, rolled rim.
Shipibo vessels are visually distinctive and instantly recognizable, but they are also the result of a tempering technology that is millennia old and allowed them to create some of the largest, thinnest-walled vessels produced in the New World. For the Shipibo, pottery is distinctly female work.
Made by Shipibo women of the Amazon Jungle Rainforest.
These ceramic polychrome vessel with a human face in high relief at the top of the neck. A dark, earthy red, flat base terminates abruptly in a brown ring and then gives way to a creamy color decorated with labyrinthine lines and a projecting human face below a slightly flared, rolled rim. Shipibo vessels are visually distinctive and instantly recognizable, but they are also the result of a tempering technology that is millennia old and allowed them to create some of the largest, thinnest-walled vessels produced in the New World. Made by Shipibo women of the Amazon Jungle Rainforest.
Patterns and colors may slightly vary from photo due to handmade nature.
Exquisitely hand crafted replica of an Inca ceremonial glass made by the artist Jose Vitancio. Incision details along the entire body of this cone shaped cup. Formerly used to drink chicha, corn beer.
Replica of Pre-Columbian, single loop stirrup vessel imitative of the Moche culture. Modeled as a hybrid anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figure with elaborate head decoration, collar, it has large fangs and earlike projections. the Moche were known for combining human and animal forms to create hybrid figures. Crafted in the north of Peru.
Original, one-of-a-kind signed painting discovered at the Peruvian street markets long ago. Canvas nailed to a wooden frame and transformed to a true piece of art with bold colors, delicate lines, and astounding details. From our private collection.
This polychrome bowl is a beautiful example of ancient South American culture. It is a piece of Nazca pottery with designs of traditional anamorphic shapes that represent fish. The bottom of the bowl has bold strokes in white and red that is representative of the sun.
Hand crafted in Peru by artist and ethnomusicologist Jose Vitancio. Sold individually.
