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*38<br />

MIDDLE MOCHICA PORTRAIT HEAD<br />

The youthful physiognomy with full cheeks,<br />

downward cast eyes under the slightly furrowed<br />

brow and with a distinctive left cut lip, wearing a<br />

patterned turban with side fl aps, the face decorated<br />

with two rectangles of face paint, and tubular<br />

earspools, painted in cream, brown and reddish<br />

brown.<br />

Height 20 cm<br />

Provenance<br />

Bernoulli Collection, Basel, 1949<br />

Literature<br />

Istvan Racz, Perun Taide, Helsinki, 1975, pl. 37<br />

Cf. Moche Portraits, fi g. 8.20<br />

Accordning to Christopher Donnan this vase<br />

might represent an actual individual identifi ed as<br />

‘cut lip’ (Moche Portraits, pp. 141-159).<br />

€ 1 500 – 2 500<br />

*39<br />

EARLY/MIDDLE MOCHICA PORTRAIT<br />

VESSEL<br />

Ca. 300 B. C.-A. D. 500<br />

The truncated fi gure with a moustachioed<br />

oversized head resting on raised knees, the eyes<br />

and chin decorated with facial paint and the long<br />

hair fl owing down the back, in reddish brown and<br />

cream.<br />

Height 22 cm<br />

Cf. Willey, pl. 388<br />

€ 1 000 – 2 000

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