Large Nazca polychrome spouted jar, ca. A.D. 300-500

densely painted with a complex scene of a standing agricultural figure holding vegetal elements in each hand-probably the jiquima tuber (Pachyrrizus tuberosus) showing characteristic striped fruit with stalk and pods on the other end,  wearing a pointed cap, segmented necklace of alternating colors, and with the "serpentine" streamers sweeping out from under each arm decorated with fish motifs and terminating in a feline head with legs extended, the dark background densely covered with birds and animals; three lug handles on the shoulder. 

Edinburgh, Scotland, City Art Centre, August 15-October 2, 1983

Charlottesville, University of Virginia, Bayley Art Museum, November 15, 1983-January 15, 1984

Lois Katz, ed. Art of the Andes, Pre-Columbian Sculptured and Painted Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington, D.C., 1983, pl. 133

Overall very good, repaired crack along left side of standing figure visible from inside, minor chips to rim, color strong, appears
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Cf. Parsons (1980: no. 445) for an agricultural figure with similar spotted face.