Three vessels ·  Peru, Moche · ID: 3036734

Description

a) double vessel, fired clay, black coating, two spherical corpi, connected by an open worked handle between the two necks, one of them surmounted by a small bird sculpture, small repairs, fine cracks, H: 18,5 cm; L: 25 cm; b) stirrup-spout vessel, spherical body, surmounted by a crayfish, min. dam., small missing parts, slight traces of abrasion, h: 20,5 cm; c) black clay vessel, decorated with anthropo-zoomorphical being and band ornament, min. dam., small missing parts, h: 17,5 cm; all with slight traces of abrasion

The object Three vessels with the object ID 3036734 was part of the auction 76th tribal art auction on March 22, 2014. The object with the lot number 107 achieved a sales price of EUR 400 with an asking price of EUR 350.

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Comparing literature

Stone-Miller, Rebecca, Seeing with new eyes, Atlanta 2002, p. 244, ill. 555 Berrin, Kathleen (ed.), The spirit of ancient Peru, San Francisco 1997, p. 108, ill. 40