Peruvian Shipibo Pottery Vase, circa 1900

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About the Item

A hand painted pottery vase by the Shipibo people of Peru, circa 1900, in earthenware with hand painted geometric designs, using natural pigments, which represent constellations and various planets. Wonderful dry surface and patina. "The Shipibo-Conibo are an indigenous people (currently numbering only about 20,000) who live along the Ucayali river in the Amazon basin east of the Andes. Though an increasing portion of the Shipibo population have become urbanized in settlements such as Pucallpa, their traditions remain strong. They are expressed in their shamanistic religion and in their visionary arts – notably in the patterns that the Shipibo women paint on their pottery, clothing, textiles and their bodies. The ethnologist Angelika Gebhart-Sayer terms their art “visual music”. The Shipibo are known for labyrinthine geometric designs that reflect their culture and their cosmology. The main elements of the designs are the square, the rhombus, the octagon and the cross, which “represents the southern Cross constellation which dominates the night sky and divides the cosmos into four quadrants…”* Other symbols featured in the designs are the Cosmic Serpent, the Anaconda and various plant forms, notably the caapi vine used in the preparation of the sacramental drug Ayahuasca. There is an intriguing tie between the visual and aural in Shipibo art: “the Shipibo can listen to a song or chant by looking at the designs, and inversely paint a pattern by listening to a song…” The designs are traditionally drawn with natural huito berry pigments on hand-woven cotton fabrics that are worn as wrap-around skirts. The fabric is either natural or dyed with a red-brown dye made from mahogany bark. Today most of the fabric is machine-woven, purchased from traders, and increasingly the hand-drawn designs are supplemented with patterns embroidered with bright-colored commercial yarns. The results can be stunning. The truly psychedelic color combinations are consistent with ayahuasca visions. More often than not the designs are asymmetrical within a border or frame – like a landscape viewed through an airplane window: “Although in our cultural paradigm we perceive that the geometric patterns are bound within the border of the textile or ceramic vessel, to the Shipibo the patterns extend far beyond these borders and permeate the entire world.” Source: Howard G. Charing.

Dimensions:
Height: 7 in (17.78 cm)Diameter: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)
Style:
Native American (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Earthenware,Hand-Painted
Place of Origin:
Peru
Period:
Early 20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1900
Condition:
Minor losses. Minor chip to rim as seen in photographs. Excellent patina.
Seller Location:
Essex, MA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU83779195801

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