PREïºCOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz
PREïºCOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz
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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