Venus from Valdivia ·  Ecuador, Valdivia · ID: 3038430

Description

fired clay, dam. (missing part on the upper rim), base;
such figures presumably were worn on the body for some time in order to gain protection for its wearer or to transfer characteristics of the animated figure. Later they were placed in graves as sacrifices combined with the request for fertility, food and prosperity of man.

Proceeds will be given to the “Bürgerverein Altenhilfe e. V. Pliezhausen”

The object Venus from Valdivia with the object ID 3038430 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 81 achieved a sales price of EUR 120.

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Expertise

Thermoluminescence Certificate, No FC 0011, Ralf Kotalla, Haigerloch, 27.08.1991

Comparing literature

Steinle, Robert Fin, Fruchtbarkeit? Erotik? Sex? im Alten Amerika, Iphofen 2006, p. 55

Publications

Hoffmann, Ulrich (Hg.), Frauen des alten Amerika in Kult und Alltag, Stuttgart 2001, p. 26