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THBLarge Paracas Pottery Bowl - Zoomorphic Motifs
Lot 118
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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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By Artemis Gallery
Aug 16, 2018
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2018-08-16 10:00:00
2018-08-16 10:00:00
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These lots are going, going, gone... plus a nice selection of lots brand-new to auction! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
These lots are going, going, gone... plus a nice selection of lots brand-new to auction! Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
**Originally Listed At $1200**
Pre-Columbian, Peru, Paracas culture, ca. 800 to 100 BCE. A thick-walled ceramic bowl with low, vertical sides and an incised register of a fantastical creature repeated around the exterior. The incised lines are filled with pale red cinnabar. The figures are vaguely zoomorphic, diamond forms around three round circles that resemble eyes connected by narrow lines from which project linear shapes that may be feathers or bent legs, three on the upper side, two on the lower. Size: 9.6" W x 2.9" H (24.4 cm x 7.4 cm)
Little is known about the Paracas people, and what little we do know comes from a 1920s archaeological excavation of the Paracas Cavernas, shaft tombs containing multiple burials, many of which contained ceramics like this one, probably for holding offerings or provisioning the dead in the afterlife. Their iconography is linear and stylistic, based on formal figures whose species, when zoomorphic, often cannot be identified. Motifs on their ceramics mirror those on the textiles that they used to wrap their dead and probably represent gods or mythical figures of power.
Provenance: ex Stendahl Gallery, Los Angles, California, USA, collection acquired in the 1950s
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#126630Repaired and restored from multiple pieces, with overpainting along repair lines; repairs are well done and difficult to discern. Small areas of encrustation and root marks on unrepaired surfaces.Condition
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