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THBFramed Chancay Embroidered Textile Section
Lot 73c
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
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, Ethnographic, Spanish Colonial, Fossils, Fine Art, much more. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1300 to 1470 CE. Finely woven from camelid fibers, a large textile embroidered with a front-facing lord or shaman flanked by a pair of long-beaked birds in profile. The figure wears a prominent angular green and red headdress and a skirt adorned by green and yellow triangles; his red body stands with knees slightly bent and arms raised as if dancing or gesturing to the celestial realm above. His yellow and brown eyes are wide open as is his mouth, suggesting that he is singing, praying, or chanting. The birds are depicted in profile view with green heads, yellow eyes, and chocolate brown beaks and have red bodies and raised wings and outspread chocolate brown tailfeathers as if in flight. Below this scene are two large opposing step motifs of chocolate brown hues with rose-red rising meanders (Greek key motifs) - all further delineated by superimposed golden bird heads - their abstract visages comprised of repeating diamond motifs. Size: 20" W x 17.25" H (50.8 cm x 43.8 cm); 25.825" W x 19.625" H (65.6 cm x 49.8 cm) framed
From ca. 1300 CE onward, Chancay textile motifs began to emphasize anthropomorphic figures rather than geometric abstractions. Some scholars have advanced the theory that frontal figures are gods and figures shown in profile are their attendants.
The people of the early cultures in the Andes buried their honorable deceased in bundles with woven textiles like this. The red color used in this textile was created from cochineal, a bright red insect, while the other pigments were derived from various plants. Thankfully the dry, cold climate of the Andes preserved special textiles like this example.
Provenance: private Southern California, USA collection, acquired in the 1970s to mid-1980s
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#141703Nice selvage borders. Minor losses to left and right edges. The body of the textile shows some loose fibers and losses, a few areas of faded pigmentation, a couple of old repairs, but most is there and is generally very good.Condition
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