**Originally Listed At $450**
Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 1000 CE. A hand-carved and painted wooden maternal pair. The mother's visage is delineated with characteristically diamond-shaped white eyes, a protruding nose, petite white lips, red and black face paint, and a textile cap finely woven from camelid (alpaca or llama) fibers. The child's face is rendered with delicate features and nice remains of red,white, and black pigmentation. A touching portrayal of the bond between a mother and her child from the Chancay culture. Size: 3.125" W x 18" H (7.9 cm x 45.7 cm); 19.4" H (49.3 cm) on included custom stand.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, collected from 1950 to 1960s
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#156962
Condition
Head of larger figure reattached along neck, with light in-fill material and adhesive residue along break lines. Loss to left half of base as shown. Textile headband is perhaps not original to the larger figure but is from the same time period. Encrustations across both figures, with chipping and splintering in several areas, and minor fading to pigmentation. Nice remains of pigment across obverse and great earthen deposits throughout.