Pre-Columbian Recuay Pottery Erotic Double Figure Vessel – Embracing Couple with Modeled Genital Detail The vessel is elaborately decorated

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

simpler earthenware examples such as this were also widely produced and valued for their ritual and symbolic significance

Displays beautifully

Reference: Vlasto 1238 / HN Italy 914

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Pre-Columbian Recuay Pottery Erotic Double Figure Vessel – Embracing Couple with Modeled Genital Detail The vessel is elaborately decoratedA 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