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THBInca Chucu Ritual Terracotta Plaque - Checkered Motif
Lot 103
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Artemis Fine Arts
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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Explore a world of classical antiquities and ethnographic masterpieces, with treasures from every corner of the globe. Discover Egyptian relics, Greek and Roman artifacts, Etruscan elegance, Near Eastern wonders, and Asian heritage. Marvel at Pre-Columbian marvels, Native American artistry, African tribal expressions, and Oceanic cultural gems. Spanish Colonial legacies, Russian craftsmanship, and a spectrum of fine and visual arts await, offering a captivating journey through history and artistry, connecting cultures across time. Artemis Fine Arts info@artemisgallery.com
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Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Inca hinterlands (Chucu), ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A rectangular pottery plaque with a slightly curved, concave form and a highly burnished verso. The obverse features a checker-pattern motif, created with intersecting incised lines filled with red, black, and yellow pigments, along with scattered traces of shimmering silver-grey pigment made from crushed mica. Such plaques were placed as offerings to Pacha Mama and Pacha Papa (Mother and Father Earth) to ensure the well-being of both livestock and human members of the clan. Comes with a custom display stand. Size: 7.5" L x 7.5" W (19 cm x 19 cm); 9.5" H (24.1 cm) on included custom stand.
These plaques were created by breaking large vessels and painting the fragments, a practice that has been uncovered in various contexts - including beneath wall foundations, in graves, alongside animal sacrifices, and cached in significant landscape features such as springs, rock hollows, and hilltops. They are often found in pairs, with the painted surfaces facing each other, sometimes wrapped in leaves or even gold sheet. While the tablet-making tradition began centuries earlier, this particular period marks its peak, coinciding with the intensification of agriculture, the expansion of interregional trade networks, and the rise of influential clan confederations. Amidst this transformation, the Inca expanded into the region, and the tablet tradition abruptly ceased - likely suppressed by the Inca, who sought to control local ritual practices, viewing these tablets as a threat to their own trade in sacrificial alpacas, corn beer, and cloth.
Provenance: private Thornton, Colorado, USA collection, acquired from Artemis Gallery; ex-private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hillberg collection, California, USA
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#192702Small area of restoration with modern infill material - about a 1.5 inch triangular section to a corner. Light wear to pigment, a couple small areas of staining, with some minor abrasions to obverse and reverse, and small nicks to peripheries, otherwise very good.Condition
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