You are bidding on a double spout vessel with a bridge of Nazca culture. The painting shows a sacrificial deity holding a tumi and a trophy head. The deity wears a headdress in the form of a bird of prey and the mouth mask of a big cat. In addition to the eyes, there are two other trophy heads with eyes closed. The body shows pointed spines of the sacred San Pedro cactus and the tail forms a snake deity with eyes wide open. The painting is full of symbolism and mysticism and is one of ...the favorites of lovers of Nazca ceramics. The colors are vivid and reflect everything wonderfully. The painting unites the three highest deities into one figure, big cat, bird of prey and snake, which were worshiped until the Incas and long before the Nazca. So many of these representations find a similar form in the Chavin. Even the whiskers of the big cat mouth mask form small human heads, which are probably a symbol of power over people. One spout is missing, the other was reattached, a small hole on the bottom, otherwise in very good condition, visually very appealing and attractive. The highest quality of Nazca ceramics!Come with TL Test and COA.Culture: Nazca Nasca Age: 1600 years old, TL tested, original Test Document 2008 inclusive!Tall approx.: 7.1” in Important for collectors who do not know my offers: it gives antiques, where you don't know, it is genuine or new (looks old or is a fake...). Many looks old, but it is? The best way to find out is an independent laboratory substance test. For many collectors is one reason, why they don't make a test, the high price. (In Europe are the cost today ca. 280 Euro / 300USD per test!) Here you get an antique piece inclusive a test (Thermo-Luminescence Analysis Report). For me as seller is this best feeling, because I can give you a really accurately described piece and the guarantee, made in antique times, an antique artisan, from an old long ago bygone culture!Provenance: ex Belgium private collection, Dutch Tumi Antiques Gallery, Private collection 2020.Can anyone write a COA, a material laboratory test for determining the age is truly something special! I know the disappointing feeling when you realize that you bought a copy or a fake!Lifetime Authenticity Guarantee!Good luck bidding! I prefer PayPal outside European Union! I send only a box DHL with insurance. It possible its works 4/5 weeks from Germany to the states (tracking incl.), but I send directly after payment the next working day with full insurance of the buying value, it`s safety for you and me. Careful packaging of course! Today Shipping info: (shipping works possible 4-6 weeks, 59USD) normal shipping not possible/provide from DHL, please contact me and wait for payment, then I send an updated payment request. In this sick times DHL offer only shipping for 59USD to US! Sorry about this! But I can say, no matter how much the shipping costs: it is worth it and true lovers are not scare off!