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LATE NAZCA EFFIGY VESSEL
Ca. A.D. 300-600
Height 17,2 cm
Painted in reddish brown, dark brown,
tan and cream, in the form of a standing
female with rounded body with long arms
held straight to the sides, almond-shaped
eyes under arched, thin brows, reddened
cheeks, with a fringe of long hair surrounding
her face, wearing an elaborately patterned
tunic, with stylized octopus heads
along the skirt and a chevron patterned
headband.
Provenance
Louis Slavitz Collection
Cf. For the general type, Nazca, pg. 136
top left
€ 3 500 – 5 500
*186
TIAHUANACO EFFIGY VESSEL,
HIGHLANDS
Ca. A. D. 400-700
The naturalistically rendered standing
llama, with cloven hooves planted fi rmly, a
swelling robust body and elongated neck,
lips parted, pierced nostrils fl ared and
ears backward swept and pierced, a spout
fl aring from the back, painted in a creamy
slip with details in reddish brown.
Height 16 cm
Provenance
Arthur M. Sackler Collection
Literature
Ed. Lois Katz, Art of the Andes: Pre-Columbian
Sculptured and Painted Ceramics from
the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Washington
D. C., 1983, pl. 147
Cf. Junius Bird, E. Benson and W. Conklin,
Museum of the Andes, New York, 1981, pg.
85; Revista de Arqueologia Boliviana, no. 4,
La Paz, fi g.26
Another modeled llama is in the Museo
National de Antropologia y Arqueologia in
Lima, Sackler Collections, pg. 112, fi g. 8
Llamas, originally and essentially Highland
animals, were bred on the north coast of
Peru. Unlike most other animals in Andean
art, which are often anthropomorphized
and sometimes mixed with other animals’
traits, llamas are depicted quite realistically.
€ 6 000 – 8 000