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10<br />

*8<br />

VICUS DOUBLE-BODIED VESSEL<br />

Ca. A. D. 100-500<br />

Surmounted a pair of embracing anthropomorphic<br />

fi gures, each with spotted body and tail<br />

extending at the back, and fl at facial plane with<br />

grinning expression and ears to the sides, the<br />

whole painted in reddish brown with details in<br />

white and geometric patterns in black resist.<br />

Length 23.5 cm<br />

Literature<br />

Ferdinand Anton, Alt -Peru und seine Kunst, Leipzig,<br />

1972, pl. 24<br />

Such receptacles with two bodies joined by a<br />

tube and a handle-bridge where one of the bodies<br />

is fi gurative and the other a plain bottle were<br />

a common ware in the Vicus ceramic tradition.<br />

These forms are known as silbador (whistling vessels)<br />

because they emit a sound when a liquid is<br />

deposited in the vessel and rocked, or when one<br />

blows on the spout.<br />

€ 1 500 – 2 500<br />

8 9<br />

*9<br />

VICUS DOUBLE-BODIED VESSEL<br />

Ca. A. D. 100-500<br />

With one chamber surmounted by an anthropomorphic<br />

creature with spotted feline body and<br />

grinning face with large bat wing ears, the long<br />

tail curling around the spout of the second vessel,<br />

the whole painted in reddish brown with details<br />

in white and geometric patterns in black resist.<br />

Length 28.3 cm<br />

€ 1 000 – 1 500

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