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THBMoche Polychrome Rattle Florero w/ Sea Monsters
Lot 100k
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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, Peru, Moche, ca. 400 CE. A very large rattling florero (also sonajero) - a dramatically flared sacrificial bowl with a rattle-filled base, and an extensive iconographic/decorative program. The interior of the rim presents four abstract mythical sea creatures possessing both barracuda and anthropomorphic features that swim within a wide register, finely delineated in red on a light orange ground. The rim itself is also impressive - finely cut with repeating step motifs to adorn the entire periphery. On the exterior walls, we see abstract stepped and spiral motifs in cream on a deeper orange ground. These may represent a mountain and/or temple. Marking the upper end of the base is a bold red band. Size: 10" in diameter x 8" H (25.4 cm x 20.3 cm)
Flared bowls like this, usually called a floreros, often included rattles. The pedestal base is hollow, has a few small openings, and is filled with ceramic pellets to create a sonorous rattling sound (hence the other term sonajero) when the vessel is shook. The sea monsters likely represented inhabitants of the watery underworld. Perhaps shamans who used this sonajero wished to summon Ai Apec, god of the underworld, to capture the frightening sea monsters that symbolized demons.
Cf: Christopher B. Donnan, Moche Art of Peru. Pre-Columbian Symbolic Communication (Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History, University of California, 1978), fig. 70 for similar finely decorated vessels.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany
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#148359Repaired from about 6 to 10 pieces with restoration over the break lines. Still contains rattles and makes a wonderful percussive sound when shook. Imagery is strong, particularly the sea monster frieze on the interior rim.Condition
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