Wari Figural Vessel with Janus Faces North Coast region, ca. A.D. 600-1000

showing a ceremonial transformation, one side with a dignitary holding weapons,  the reverse side of a fierce supernatural raptorial grinning face, holding a trophy-head and weapon, sharing a four-cornered hat, small animals on the shoulder, the globular base with acrobatic figures, confronted felines, and a standing staff-bearing figure, the spout with checkerboard motifs. 

Acquired by the present owner's grandfather prior to 1957
By descent in the family

Jose Antonio Lavalle, Arte y Tesoros del Peru, Huari, 1984, pg.158

Overall very good, minor chip to beak of avian on one face, remains of resin patch on shaman figure left hand.
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This densely patterned style was referred to as Santa style, see Lumbreras (1974:173, Fig. 183).