Figurative Vase, Chorrera Culture (1300 - 300 Bc), Ecuador, Pre-columbian Ceramics.

Figurative ceramic vase covered with a red and brown glaze. It could have served as a bottle to hold liquids. Typical of the representations of figures of the Chorrera culture, it is difficult for us to determine the sex of the man. The seated figure has a round shape, a calm face with round earrings, characteristic of the Chorrera culture, and a specific type of headdress or hairstyle resembling a helmet.

Ecuador, Chorrera culture (1300 - 300 BC).

Height 20.5 cm, width 13.8 cm, depth 13 cm.

State of conservation visible in the photographs, cracks.

Other anthropomorphic vessels:
https://vilcek.org/art/chorrera-recumbent-figure-on-rectangular-base/
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/315062
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/anthropomorphic-vessel-0001/FgGU3iu24P1wsQ

The vessel comes from the extensive collection of a Polish engineer who worked on road construction in Ecuador in the 1970s-80s.

Free shipping in EU. ! I send parcels by insured mail (DPD or DHL). All items are packed very carefully. Payment by international bank transfer. The Chorrera culture (c. 1300 - 300 BC) is, after the Valdivia and Machalilla cultures, the culture in which artists made ceramic vessels. However, it was not until the Chorrera culture that artists developed so many types of vessels and diverse representations of people and animals. Ceramics could have a practical use, such as bottles to hold drinks, but they very often had religious or ritual significance. Figurines or bottles with additional small holes also served as musical instruments: they could produce a sound similar to a whistle, and two-chambered vessels also produced a sound when liquids were poured between the compartments. The representations of animals and people by artists of the Chorrera culture are quite naturalistic, but with some simplifications and more or less stylization. In the region of present-day Ecuador, the Chorrera civilization was followed by a period of regional development, during which several civilizations developed, including La Tolita-Tumaco, Jama Coaque, Bahía, and Guangala. The ceramics of each of these cultures developed many characteristics, often moving away from the "classic" and naturalistic ceramics of the Chorrera culture.