Lot 139
Exhibited Chancay Pottery Llama & Bird Pottery Vessels
Exhibited Chancay Pottery Llama & Bird Pottery Vessels
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Pre-Columbian, Central Coast of Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 to 1400 CE. A charming pair of ritual vessels, each modeled in animal form and adorned with painted linear and dotted motifs. The larger vessel represents a llama or alpaca, hollow-bodied and raised on four legs, with a modeled head featuring upright ears and an open mouth. A small aperture on the back suggests use for pouring libations or depositing offerings of food or drink. The smaller vessel depicts a bird with a slightly curved beak, perched upon short legs, its rounded body painted in dotted and banded decoration. A rimmed opening at the top indicates similar ritual function, perhaps for holding fat, chicha, or other ceremonial substances. Size of llama: 11.5" L x 3.75" W x 5.5" H (29.2 cm x 9.5 cm x 14 cm); bird: 3" L x 2.25" W x 2" H (7.6 cm x 5.7 cm x 5.1 cm)
Provenance: private Colorado, USA collection; previously bequeathed to the Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem, Israel, stored for many years and exhibited in 1988; ex-Yosef A. Maiman collection, Consul of Peru A.H., acquired in 1993; ex-Kate Kemper collection, Switzerland, acquired in the 1940s or earlier
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- Condition: Llama is repaired with infill and stabilizing adhesive along break lines that radiate across the back and from central fill hole. Chips and losses to surface layers on head. Bird has a old loss to leg, but otherwise intact. Old inventory numbers written on the surfaces of both.
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