Venus from Valdivia · Ecuador, Valdivia · ID: 3038430
sold
EUR 120
Provenance
Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart, GermanyBruno Voges, Pliezhausen, Germany
Size
H: 5,5 cm
H: 2.2 inch
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”
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