A Paracas bridge-spout vessel, Ocucaje ca. 500-300 B.C.

of small elegant form, incised and resin painted on each side with a stylized trophy-head with square face and hook-shaped body, circles and rectangles in the field, the lower band with step motif, in rich mustard and red pigments on black. 

Mr. and Mrs. John Tishman, New York, acquired before 1972

Cf. Sawyer (1966: fig. 108,109) for the type. Ceramics from the Middle Paracas in Ocucaje, and in later Cavernas-influenced examples, show a shift towards the trophy-head cult and a more geometric, simplified iconography.