Lovely Older Vintage Hand-painted Peruvian Shipibo-Conibo Pottery Vessel exceptional doll And while I believe meant

And while I believe meant to represent a seal (with incredibly beautiful carving of the rear flippers)

I can find no likeness of this one out there anywhere--beautifully executed in this blue against white with a border I'd describe as berries on branch but looking a bit weeping willow-esque too

but I'll be especially more than happy to keep this one

or add all three to your cart for all

so would have been well into his 70s when he carved this one

Lovely Older Vintage Hand-painted Peruvian Shipibo-Conibo Pottery Vessel exceptional doll And while I believe meantI'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