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18<br />

*21<br />

MIDDLE MOCHICA VESSEL<br />

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

Of unusual form with a horizontal hole running<br />

through the center narrowing into a cylinder imitating<br />

the shape of a staff , the body painted with<br />

a riverine delta in reddish brown and cream with<br />

fi sh, crab, lobster, jellyfi sh and long-necked herons<br />

wading through reeds.<br />

Height 23 cm<br />

Provenance<br />

Bernoulli Collection, 1949<br />

Literature<br />

Chirstopher Donnan and Donna McClelland,<br />

Moche Fineline Painting, 1999, Los Angeles, fi g. 4.55<br />

Cf. Lapiner, pl. 96, for a similar pierced vessel<br />

€ 1 500 – 2 500<br />

*22<br />

MIDDLE MOCHICA PAINTED VESSEL<br />

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

In cream and reddish brown with bold swirling<br />

stepped motif on each side with a coiled felineheaded<br />

snake below each handle of the stirrup<br />

spout, six-petal fl owers decorating the spout.<br />

Height 29 cm<br />

Provenance<br />

Galerie Fischer, Luzern, November 26, 1959, lot 37<br />

€ 1 000 – 1 400

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