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THBHuari Polychrome Human Effigy Vessel, TL Tested
Lot 162
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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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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, Central Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. An impressive anthropomorphic vessel, most likely used at ceremonial feasts given its elaborate decoration. The Huari used textiles and pottery to demonstrate their ideas about society, nature, and the cosmos. This face neck jar depicts an elite personage with a carefully modeled and detailed face, dressed in an ornately adorned tunic, painted to look like a woven textile with colorful panels of diamond-shaped motifs in red, purple, orange, white, grey, green, black, maroon, and white hues on the front - and a textile with red and white circular motifs against a black ground on the back. He also carries an intricately decorated sack over his left shoulder in golden yellow, cream, and black hues. His face presents a somber expression with tears streaming down his cheeks - topped by a black coiffure and short conical red headdress with black striated motifs. Size: 13.25" H (33.7 cm)
Additional details include the painted limbs with hands and feet as well as outspread fingers and toes. Partially perforated earlobes also indicate further personal ornamentation of the figure. The attention paid to the decoration of this piece indicates that the person depicted and/or honored was a confident royal or deity.
The Huari/Wari potters were quite skilled at polychrome slip painting, and their techniques can be traced to Nazca ceramic technology. Although Huari imagery is understudied and it is difficult to know whether this vessel represented a specific individual, it is possible that the figure represented a mourner for the deceased, a living person of high rank, or an ancestor.
This piece has been tested using thermoluminescence (TL) analysis and has been found to be ancient and of the period stated. A full report will accompany purchase.
Provenance: ex-Ramon Alonso collection, Spain, acquired in the mid 1960s, thence by descent upon his death in 1976
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#137318Repaired from about a dozen pieces with restoration over the break lines. Repairs are difficult to see with the naked eye. A few TL holes on the underside of the base.Condition
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