Paracas blackware spouted jar, ca. 500-300 B.C.

of elegant globular form with short flaring spout decorated around the perimeter with bands of post-firing white paint flanking alternating red and plain black segments, a faint row of white dots at the rim. 

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, Appendix, fig. 65

Excellent, appears in tact. Lovely form .
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