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A Moche I Blackware figural stirrup-spout vessel, ca. 300 -100 B.C.
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
seated in cross-legged pose with well modeled hands resting on the knees, the deeply recessed wrists and oval eyes once inlaid, the ears pierced and nose now adorned with a gold nose ring, the low domed cap with finely striated radiating segments, and long coiffure down the back.
Provenance
Alan Lapiner, Arts of the Four Quarters, New York
Mr. and Mrs. John Tishman, New York, acquired from the above before 1972
Mr. and Mrs. John Tishman, New York, acquired from the above before 1972
Exhibited
New York, Ancient Peruvian Sculpture, Alan Lapiner, Arts of the Four Quarters, 1967, fig. 28, illus.
Literature
Christopher B. Donnan, Moche Art of Peru, Pre-Columbian Symbolic Communication, catalogue to the exhibition at Musuem of Cultural History, UCLA, 1978, fig. 13