Pre-Columbian Peruvian black ware vessel from the chimu culture. All of the pre-Columbian pieces we are selling were inherited from our grandmother who inherited them from her father when she emigrated from Ecuador to America.

Chimu Culture-

The Chimú were the residents of Chimor, with its capital at the city of Chan Chan, a large adobe city in the Moche Valley of present-day Trujillo, Peru. The culture arose about 900 AD. The Inca ruler Tupac Inca Yupanqui led a campaign which conquered the Chimú around 1470 AD,.
The Chimú are best known for their distinctive monochromatic pottery and fine metal working of copper, gold, silver, bronze, and tumbago (copper and gold). The pottery is often in the shape of a creature, or has a human figure sitting or standing on a cuboid bottle. The shiny black finish of most Chimú pottery was achieved by firing the pottery at high temperatures in a closed kiln, which prevented oxygen from reacting with the clay.
*The above information on the Chimu culture was found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chim%C3%BA_culture