c. 1500 BCE Small Round Bottomed Terra Cotta Vessel with Handle and Fine Stripe, Plus Small Second Pot travel watercolors minor bends

minor bends

it is the three center disks that turn

I really really love her and find her to be very much alive

Ornately detailed all over

which feels like a cross between pout and snarl

c. 1500 BCE Small Round Bottomed Terra Cotta Vessel with Handle and Fine Stripe, Plus Small Second Pot travel watercolors minor bendsI purchased this from my favorite family run cabinet of curiosities antique shop in New Hampshire, and based on other pieces in the estate collection it came from (including Olmec, Mayan and Peruvian Chancay pieces), I believe is Pre Columbian, from Central or South America, and as shown it was found with an old tag on it noting 1500 BC, which would make it quite an early example. I have done a little looking around to try to more specifically place