Lovely Older Vintage Hand-painted Peruvian Shipibo-Conibo Pottery Vessel birthmark clinical looking dark green box

clinical looking dark green box with silver print and one initial--"A" for auto in this case

perhaps to fill now with pills

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

*photo at end of it in combo with large

Really wonderful dark patina from use

Lovely Older Vintage Hand-painted Peruvian Shipibo-Conibo Pottery Vessel birthmark clinical looking dark green boxI'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