🔸 Trick Ceramic Vessel – Cusco, Peru (1994)

📏 Height: 23 cm 🌎 Origin: Inscribed "Cusco - Perú - 1994" Handmade ceramic vessel featuring a jaguar-head handle and traditional Andean-style painted decorations. 🎨 Material & Decoration: Terracotta clay with polychrome hand-painted tribal and warrior motifs, geometric patterns, and symbolic elements. 🧩 Trick Functionality: This is a puzzle or trick vessel – designed to hold liquid, but it can only be poured or filled through a hidden method involving the spout and internal channels. Popular in Peruvian folk art as a playful or ceremonial object. 🐆 Features: Sculpted jaguar head forming the handle Side spout Intricate hand-painted iconography Footed base for stability Marked on base with year and location 📦 Condition: Good vintage condition. No major damage. Minor wear from age and handling.