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NAZCA POLYCHROME DRUM
Ca. A. D. 300-600
Painted in white, tan, grey and shades
of brown with an impressive Anthropomorphic
Mythical Deity holding a staff
wearing a tunic and openwork serpentine
cape with serrated border enclosing
a series of trophy heads, a sinuous snake
darting below.
Height 26 cm
Cf. An die Mächte der Natur, pl. 2.13; for a
Paracas drum, Nasca, pl. 29
Ceramic drums with central, bulging
sounding chambers were manufactured
already in the Paracas period. Among
the most elaborately fi nished are those
of Nazca style. They were surfaced with
the many rich colors commonly used on
Nazca ceramic vessels. A favored form
was one in which a fat-bodied fi gure in
this case the Anthropomorphic Mythical
Deity whose body is worked into the
shape of the instrument, with its imposing
face spreading out while the legs
sweep around the circumference. Skin
would have been stretched over the wide
mouth of the drum.
€ 1 800 – 2 800
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TWO NAZCA PAINTED BOWLS
Ca. A. D. 300-600
Each in shades of brown, grey, tan, white,
deep red and black, with the Anthropomorphic
Mythical Being profusely covered
in trophy heads, on one wrapping
around the entirety of the vessel.
Heights 8 and 9 cm
Provenance
Bernoulli Collection, Basel, 1946
Literature
For the second, Ferdinand Anton,
Alt -Peru und seine Kunst, Leipzig, 1962,
pl. 98
Ferdinand Anton, Alt -Peru und seine Kunst,
Leipzig, 1972, pl. 72
€ 500 – 800