Pre-Columbian Recuay Pottery Erotic Double Figure Vessel – Embracing Couple with Modeled Genital Detail Stylized scrolls and geometric registers

Stylized scrolls and geometric registers enhance the composition

and painted facial panels

indicating the stela originally commemorated a priest or temple official connected to the cult of Amun

Provenance: Ex Zhu Owen Collection

characterized by a synthesis of human and supernatural attributes rendered through abstraction and symmetry

Pre-Columbian Recuay Pottery Erotic Double Figure Vessel – Embracing Couple with Modeled Genital Detail Stylized scrolls and geometric registersA 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