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*42<br />

RARE GALLINAZO MUSICIAN VESSEL; VIRU<br />

Ca. 200 B. C. -A. D. 300<br />

The unusual fl utists seated on a two-legged bench playing their pan<br />

fl utes with coff ee bean eyes and pierced noses and ears, perhaps<br />

once adorned with gold ornaments, wearing belted loincloths,<br />

one with a swirling chignon, the other with a side knot, painted in<br />

reddish brown, ocher and black.<br />

Height 20.2 cm<br />

Literature<br />

Cologne, Schaetze aus Peru von Chavin bis zu den Inka,<br />

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, June 20-September, 6, 1959, pl. 27<br />

Ferdinand Anton, Alt -Peru und seine Kunst, Leipzig, 1962, pl. 8<br />

Ferdinand Anton, Alt -Peru und seine Kunst, Leipzig, 1972, pl. 27<br />

€ 3 000 – 5 000

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