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MIDDLE MOCHICA PAINTED VESSEL<br />

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

Painted in fi neline style in reddish brown against the cream slip, with<br />

a fast paced race in a desert landscape with four running warriors,<br />

entitled ‘Ritual Runners’, the terrain shows sand and cacti, with<br />

scattered beans and faunal motifs, a hummingbird in fl ight, each<br />

warrior sashed loincloth and semicircular helmet with a jaguar head<br />

fi nial and a round shield-like projection at the back, each clutching a<br />

small satchel.<br />

Height 28 cm<br />

Provenance<br />

Bernoulli Collection, Basel, 1949<br />

Cf. Moche Fineline Painting, fi g. 4.30, for Ritual Runners<br />

The fi gures depicted on this group of vessels have at times been<br />

entitled ‘bean runners’ because of the fl oating beans in the fi eld. It is<br />

theorized that the small bags they carry might have contained beans<br />

and other seeds, perhaps for a planting rite, or even divination.<br />

€ 2 000 – 4 000

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