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CHIMU GREYWARE
ZOOMORPHIC VESSEL
Ca. A. D. 1000-1400
The monkey treated in an abstract fashion with
legs modeled as tubular supports, the concave
face with jutting chin, long tail curved at the back.
18.1 cm
€ 700 – 900
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LAMBAYEQUE HEAD VESSEL
Ca. A. D. 900-1100
The pedestal foot molded with stepped lozenges
fl aring into an elaborately tattooed head with
almond-shaped eyes and pursed lips, wearing a
patterned cap, a handle emerging from the back,
painted overall in brown with decorative details
in black.
Height 19 cm
€ 800 – 1 200
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RARE EARLY PACHACAMAC
ORANGEWARE VESSEL
Ca. A. D. 900-1100
the unusually large vessel of expanding spherical
shape, with the neck modeled with the head of a
dignitary with almond-shaped eyes and thin lips,
the rounded walls molded on both sides with
a complex, animated scene with a central deity
wearing a double-headed snake headdress and
grasping a naked, recumbent female goddess,
head turned frontally with nine snakes issuing
from the below its body, with scampering spider
monkeys and reptiles in the fi eld, a further snakes
proliferating, one bearing fruits (?), surrounded by
a stepped pattern.
Height 36 cm
Provenance
Bernoulli Collection, Basel, 1949
Literature
Rebeca Carrion Cachot, El Culto del Agua,
Peru, 1955, p. 59
Ferdinand Anton, Alt -Peru und seine Kunst,
Leipzig, 1972, pl. 250
Istvan Racz, Perun Taide, Helsinki, 1975, pl. 61
€ 3 000 – 5 000