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CHAVIN EFFIGY VESSEL<br />

Ca. 700-400 B.C.<br />

Height 24,3 cm<br />

The unusual composition with the cylindrical vessel surmounted by<br />

a stylized prone fi gure with bent legs extended at the back in a carefree<br />

manner, squat body with bipartite pigment and scored overall,<br />

arms bent and folded at the chest, the face with tripartite pigmentation,<br />

with applied eyes and thin closed mouth, the whole painted in<br />

shades of orange and cream with areas highly burnished.<br />

Provenance<br />

German collection acquired in the late 1970s<br />

€ 6 000 – 9 000<br />

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