Burial urn ·  Peru, Chancay · ID: 3036453

Description

light-beige fired clay, dark brown painting, round bodied corpus, the neck of the vessel provided with anthropomorphic facial features, partly modelled, partly painted, with both hands holding the small body of a child in front of the breast, painted band ornaments, the rim of the vessel dam., abrasion of paint in some areas, rep. (bottom), metal base

The object Burial urn with the object ID 3036453 was part of the auction 76th tribal art auction on March 22, 2014. The object with the lot number 94 achieved a sales price of EUR 850 with an asking price of EUR 400.

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Comparing literature

Paz, Octavio et. al., Ritual Arts of the New World, Geneve 2000, p. 353