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THBChancay Pottery Black-on-White Figural Litter Vessel
Lot 9
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Louisville, CO 80027
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Featuring ancient and ethnographic art from around the world, including Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Ethnographic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, Fine Art, much more. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A very rare ceramic vessel, hand sculpted and painted in the distinctive Chancay style. The vessel features a half-circle-shaped body with a large, flaring spout emerging from its nadir. Atop its other side is a scene of a lord being born on a litter by two attendants. The lord is seated, with his legs raised and his hands resting on his knees. He wears a large crown, huge round earrings, and a necklace or pectoral composed of several applied dots. Each attendant is personalized, with different headgear and facial markings. The litter they bear is a simple flat base with two handles, very similar to other litters known from this culture such as one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (64.228.684). Size: 5.8" W x 10.2" H (14.7 cm x 25.9 cm)
This vessel seems to have been made purely to be votive, or to show off the skill of the artist, given the position of the spout in relation to the litter! Perhaps this is a scene that the sculptor witnessed themselves, or one that someone requested. It has been painted in the distinctive Chancay style of black-on-white pottery. Chancay ceramics are found mainly in the cemeteries of the Ancon and Chancay valleys, where elite members of society paid for a class of artisans to create funerary items like this one.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex Ben Johnson collection, Los Angeles, California, USA LACMA Curator, collected before 1970
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#151861Expertly repaired and restored from multiple pieces. This is very well done and almost indiscernible. Light deposits on surface with nice remaining pigment and wear commensurate with age.Condition
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