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MIDDLE MOCHICA<br />

MOLDED VESSEL<br />

Ca. A. D. 200-500<br />

Molded on the rounded body with a<br />

complex mythological frieze including<br />

a procession with the standing<br />

Ai-Apec holding a weapon in his<br />

upraised arm followed by a fox-headed<br />

warrior holding spears and with<br />

a raptorial bird as headdress and confronting<br />

a warrior throwing a bola with<br />

a serpent head at the end, followed by<br />

two pelican-headed fi gures fl anking<br />

an elaborate totora reed boat with<br />

snarling feline heads at the bow and<br />

the stern, one clutching a stingray on<br />

a lasso, the other clutching an animalheaded<br />

staff , painted in cream, reddish<br />

brown and orange.<br />

Height 27 cm<br />

Provenance<br />

Bernoulli Collection, Basel, 1949<br />

€ 1 000 – 2 000

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