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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 265596, member: 2844&quot;]Hello aebon, welcome to the forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a Chimú style monkey vessel, possibly a replica.</p><p>The Chimú were an important Peruvian coastal culture ca. 850 - 1470.</p><p>The foot rim is highly unusual for this kind of vessel, it is usually seen on vessels with an irregular shape, like llama head shapes.</p><p>The surface of the bottom is very rough and rather new looking. And it looks much lighter in colour, which I haven&#039;t seen in Chimu ware.</p><p>So I think it is a replica. But it would be worth checking with a museum that has a pre-Columbian arts department.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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