Pre-Columbian Chavín culture copper alloy plaque and highly desirable kaolin-slipped surface

and highly desirable kaolin-slipped surface

Three-dimensional animal heads—dogs and serpents—project from the vessel’s spherical body

rich coloration

Weight: ~0

A strong and highly collectible example of Teotihuacan stone sculpture

Pre-Columbian Chavín culture copper alloy plaque and highly desirable kaolin-slipped surfaceAuthentic Pre Columbian Chavn culture copper alloy plaque, Peru, ca. 900200 BCE. This rare ceremonial plaque is hammered from a copper based alloy and decorated in repouss with classic Chavn iconography, featuring stylized anthropomorphic and zoomorphic imagery characteristic of the Chavn religious tradition. The plaque retains its original suspended metal danglers, still attached through ancient perforations along the lower edgean exceptional