Lovely Older Vintage Hand-painted Peruvian Shipibo-Conibo Pottery Vessel ex voto painting just super

just super

9 1/4" x 5 1/2" and in good condition

and I think all the better for the crazing and other imperfections they've invariably acquired over the past century and a half or so

Weighs 1 lb

Lovely Older Vintage Hand-painted Peruvian Shipibo-Conibo Pottery Vessel ex voto painting just superI've found a few pieces of Shipibo pottery over the years and always kept an eye out for them. This pottery is created by women of Shipibo tribe of the Peruvian Amazon; as I understand it, the maze like hand painted designs are sophisticated interpretations of their cosmic beliefs, including that the flow of the jungle rivers follow the same course as the stars. One does not see Shipibo pottery dating to earlier than the 20th century; I believe this