Pair of Peruvian Shipibo Pottery Stacking Bowls with Faces - reserved for SS hand-painted porcelain with copper shield and woolen

with copper shield and woolen tunic

during which she enjoyed exotic desserts like charlotte a la russe and ventured off the beaten path confident in her knowledge of how to steer clear of poisonous hemlock and how to bandage a head wound should things come to that

with patina to copper and minor cracking of wood (visible in face) consistent with age and adding character

75ʺ diameter at widest × 4

Because it is copper and features one smaller and one larger compartment inside

Pair of Peruvian Shipibo Pottery Stacking Bowls with Faces - reserved for SS hand-painted porcelain with copper shield and woolenI just love this pair of Shipibo pottery bowls, each with a Janus like pair of faces, one on either side. Very thin walled, made of earthenware shaped by coil construction, and hand painted with wonderful all over maze like geometric patterns, these are quintessential examples of pottery made by the women of the Shipibo, an Indigenous people who live along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Apparently, the patterns reference the