Pre-Columbian Recuay Pottery Erotic Double Figure Vessel – Embracing Couple with Modeled Genital Detail Condition:

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The vessel is elaborately decorated with geometric panel motifs in red and brown pigments over a cream kaolin slip ground

A finely carved serpentine head fragment originating from the Olmec culture

Hollow-molded and hand-finished terracotta figure depicted standing in a rigid frontal pose with arms folded across the chest

Pre-Columbian Recuay Pottery Erotic Double Figure Vessel – Embracing Couple with Modeled Genital Detail Condition:A rare and expressive Pre Columbian ceramic vessel from the Recuay culture of ancient Peru, depicting two seated human figures engaged in an intimate embrace. The figures face one another with arms wrapped around each others bodies, forming a cohesive sculptural composition integrated into a hollow vessel form with a cylindrical neck opening at the top and a tripod base below. Both figures exhibit characteristic Recuay facial features, including