Bowl 3rd century B.C. Paracas Thin walls form a deep bowl with a slightly pinched rim, shifting the edge into a soft square frame. Shallowly incised designs of fluid figures and geometric shapes ornament the exterior. A pair of curving, double-headed snakes dominate the pictorial register, separated by geometric stepped motifs and vertical bars creating an encircling repetitive pattern. Dark red and green colors stand out from the original white background and though the bowl originally displayed additional colors, such as tans, grays, and yellow, only faded traces of these colors remain. Symmetrically designed with bold and simplistic imagery, this ceramic bowl is distinctive of the post-fire painting style characteristic of pottery produced by the Paracas culture during the Early Horizon (700 B.C. - A.D. 1) in the south coast of Peru.The Paracas culture was named for the Paracas peninsula along the south coast of Peru, where Paracas material culture was first found in the early twent