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THBMoche Bi-chrome Stirrup Vessel - Man & Tuber God
Lot 132b
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
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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, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of an intriguing form with a flat base, a cream-slipped body with protruding lateral ends, and a stirrup-shaped handle bearing red-orange pigment and a cylindrical spout projecting from the center. The bulbous body depicts a stylized man in a crouching position during the transformational process of becoming an effigy of the Moche Tuber God. The man stares out to his left with wide eyes and has hemispherical nodules growing across his chest and sides, and the wavy presentation of his back suggests he is nearly completely transformed. The Tuber God was an important deity among ancient Peruvian cultures due to the vital importance of potatoes and other similarly grown foodstuffs, and creating effigy vessels like this example was thought to ensure and protect bountiful harvests. Size: 6.75" L x 4.6" W x 8.6" H (17.1 cm x 11.7 cm x 21.8 cm)
For a stylistically similar example, please see Benson, Elizabeth P. "The Mochica: A Culture of Peru." Praeger Publishers, New York, 1972, p. 64, plate 3-22.
Provenance: private Washington, D.C., USA collection; ex-collection of Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Kissin, New York, New York, USA, acquired between 1950 and 1975; ex-Arte Primitivo e-Variety auction, New York, New York, USA (auction 91, February 28, 2008, lot 149)
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#151816Minor abrasions to base, body, handle, and spout, with fading to areas of original pigment, small nicks to spout rim, and one stable fissure across face, otherwise intact and very good. Light earthen deposits and nice craquelure to original pigment throughout.Condition
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