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Is a true Inca cup? How old is it? Thak you for all help.

 

Interesting find, Adam.
The person on the 'kero' is wearing colonial clothing, so it is post-conquest. He also seems to be holding a European-style axe.
It does look old, and I would think antique.

So certainly not a fake, not pre-conquest Inca period either, but I don't know how old it is exactly.
If I remember correctly you are in Sweden. Is there a museum or faculty specialized in the Peruvian colonial period or folk art, where you could ask about your kero? It is worth looking into.

 

Thank you very much. I live i Norway.

 

I'll have to remember that.
I read somewhere that the new National Museum in Oslo has Spanish-American items, maybe you could ask there. If they don't know, maybe they can refer you to someone else.

 

Very interesting and intriguing object indeed. Can you maybe tell us where you got it. Thanks

 

thanks

 

I bought it today from a person who bought it from an old lady.

 

An ‘old lady story’. Well that doesn’t help at all..

 

not sure animal or plant pigments on an item from the inca period would look that colorful today.

 

They could, but apparently keros with this colourful decoration style are generally post-conquest.

And since the figure is wearing colonial (post-conquest) clothing, the kero can't be Inca period anyway.

 

The colors themselves, their fresh look, and something about the way they are applied all feel wrong to me for something very old. That’s just a gut feeling though, not a bankable one.