Vintage Peruvian Torito dePucara Painted Terra Cotta Bull

No flaws. In excellent vintage condition. Approx 10" tall 9" length Vintage Authentic Peruvian Pottery Bull Torito de Pucara Terracotta Sculpture. Pucara Bulls Sculpture Happiness and Fertility Tradition The Pucara Bulls sculpture is hand made and painted by qualified artisan. They Appeared in Pucara, Puno, during the colonial time under the intellectual conception of the magic religious culture and were born as a representation of the peasant’s ceremonies of cattle bearing. This artistic form has been inherited trough hundreds of generations sustained in the belief that it provides new marriages with fertility, prosperity, happiness and the protection of home. This is why the Pucara Bulls are given as a wedding gift and couples usually place them on the roof of their houses as a symbol of these virtues.