Bidspirit auction | Pre-Columbian Inca Incised Ceramic Kero

Pre-Columbian Inca Incised Ceramic Kero (Quero) (Peru) - Rare Pre-Columbian Inca Incised Ceramic Kero / Quero / Qiru (Peru) | A cylindrical beaker shaped drinking cup with a flaring rim, decorated with incised / engraved traditional Inca small-scale geometric designs - these designs are divided into two horizontal registers. At the top is a band of triangles filled with punctation marks hanging downward from a horizontal line, and at the bottom is a band of triangles filled with perpendicular slanted lines sitting on a horizontal line | Circa. (1450–1532) | Approx. Size: 6.5” H x 5” Diameter at Base | References: Thomas B. F. Cummins. Toasts with the Inca: Andean Abstraction and Colonial Images on Quero Vessels. (History, Languages, and Cultures of the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2002, and Hecht, Johanna. “Colonial Kero Cups.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.