Lovely Older Vintage Hand-painted Peruvian Shipibo-Conibo Pottery Vessel birthmark *photo at end of it

*photo at end of it in combo with large

is marvelously understated

I can’t imagine how many hours this fantastic box and ten plates might have taken to create (I believe c

Plenty of light stains here and there and

Lovely Older Vintage Hand-painted Peruvian Shipibo-Conibo Pottery Vessel birthmark *photo at end of itI've found a few pieces of Shipibo pottery over the years and always kept an eye out for them. This pottery is created by women of Shipibo tribe of the Peruvian Amazon; as I understand it, the maze like hand painted designs are sophisticated interpretations of their cosmic beliefs, including that the flow of the jungle rivers follow the same course as the stars. One does not see Shipibo pottery dating to earlier than the 20th century; I believe this