PreColumbian Offering Vessel

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This small offering pot, hand formed with three protruding curved knobs, each containing a hole for suspension, has a rounded bottom preventing it from sitting flat on a surface.  Research has shown pieces such as this originate from a dry lake bed of ancient Chapala near modern day Guadalajara.  Used for religious rituals, such as blood letting.  Measures only an inch and a half tall, two inches wide.  A simple and un-burnished piece collected in the 1950s by a Memphis doctor and wife.

PreColumbian Offering Vessel

$185 to buy