Libation Vessel (Qero)

500-650 CE (Early Intermediate)

10.7 cm 20 cm

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Nazca ceramic artists excelled in painting dynamic imagery using a wide variety of slip-paint colors. They preferred relatively unencumbered vessel surfaces, so that the paintings flow across the ceramic object. Many images are those of deities or iconic references to religiou...

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Vincent Price Collection. Ron Messick Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; purchased by John G. Bourne, between 1990 and 1999; given to Walters Art Museum, 2013.
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