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PRECOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz

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28<br />

*36<br />

MIDDLE MOCHICA DIGNITARY<br />

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

In a distinctive deep black slip with the seated aged fi gure grasping<br />

a snarling fox close to his chest with the front paws placed on his<br />

torso, (the animal perhaps symbolic of a power object), with sunken<br />

eyes and furrowed face, the cheeks once inlaid, wearing a long tunic,<br />

headdress with tumi- like fl anges and large earspools, the whole<br />

once decoratively inlaid.<br />

Height 17.2 cm<br />

Provenance<br />

Bernoulli Collection, Basel, 1930-1949<br />

The black color of the vase is achieved by fi ring the work in a closed<br />

kiln, a technique used and disseminated by the Chavin cultures.<br />

€ 2 000 – 4 000

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