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THBMoche Royal Court Copper Trumpet
Lot 121d
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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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Bidsquare : Exceptional Day 2 Ethnographic Tribal Fossils
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Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional ethnographic art from around the world. Today's sale will feature Pre-Columbian from the ancient americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, and incredible Fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional ethnographic art from around the world. Today's sale will feature Pre-Columbian from the ancient americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, and incredible Fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 100 to 500 CE. A magnificent, rare example of a long trumpet, made from a single sheet of copper rolled together to form a massive musical instrument. A long, slowly tapering body broadens at the bell, with the bell the only part that does not have an impressed textile remaining on its surface - this item would have been placed into a grave wrapped in cloth, which has become part of its archaeological surface. Size: 3.5" W x 30.5" H (8.9 cm x 77.5 cm); 19.5" H (49.5 cm) on included custom stand.
There were no stringed instruments in South America prior to European contact, but they did have a multitude of wind and percussion instruments. Moche artwork portrays drums, rattles, panpipes, flutes, and trumpets like this one. Most, however, were made from cane, wood, shell, and ceramic - metal trumpets were reserved for particularly elite uses. They were played in large ceremonies, perhaps relating to warfare, in tandem with other instruments. To hear what they might have sounded like, here are some links to recorded tracks made in 2011 recreating Moche instruments: https://mochemusic.wordpress.com/ to an experimental archaeology project to recreate the sounds of the Moche.
See a similar example at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. They do not have an online catalogue, but you can see their Moche copper trumpet on their official twitter account here: https://twitter.com/mimphx/status/918538044361371650.
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private H.J. Westermann collection, Germany
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#143414Intact, with beautiful bright green surface patina and impressed textile remains. Small tears around the mouth of the bell but otherwise in excellent condition.Condition
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