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HUARI POLYCHROME VESSEL
Ca. A. D. 800-1000
Painted in shades of brown, tan, grey,
black, white and deep red with two
running mythological creatures, each
with hands clenched, upturned snout and
bared fangs.
Height 15.5 cm
Cf. Anton, 1962, pl. 106
There is no single homogeneous Huari
style in pottery. Instead Huari ceramics are
found in a wide range of local styles often
executed in a polychrome slip which has
its origins in that of the Nazca potters.
€ 1 000 – 1 400
*139
TIAHUANACO POLYCHROME
BEAKER
Ca. A. D. 800-1000
With fl aring cylindrical sides painted with
two striding anthropomorphic, winged
felines, each with head fl ung back sharply
and grasping a staff , the fur decoratively
treated, in reddish brown, tan, deep red,
grey, white and black.
Height 11.5 cm
Provenance
Bernoulli Collection, Basel, 1949
Literature
Ferdinand Anton, Alt -Peru und seine Kunst,
Leipzig, 1962, pl. 111a
Ferdinand Anton, Alt -Peru und seine Kunst,
Leipzig, 1972, pl. 190
€ 1 000 – 1 400
*140
HUARI BOTTLE
Ca. A D. 800-1000
The vessel painted with three roundels
each enclosing a ferocious monster head,
the strap handle with trophy heads, in
black, deep red, tan, white, grey and black.
Height 16.5 cm
€ 1 000 – 2 000
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