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THBPublished Moche Blackware Vessel - Human / Vegetal
Lot 133i
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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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Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche III, ca. 400 to 500 CE. A fascinating burnished blackware stirrup spout collage vessel showing a gun metal finish resulting from reduction firing and depicting a deformed visage of a hybrid human/vegetal being. This vessel is a type playfully dubbed collage pottery due to its resemblance to the Cubist collages of Picasso and Braque. To the Moche, such deformities were signs that particular individuals were touched by the deities. This piece was published in H. B. Nicholson's catalogue for a special exhibition of the Land Collection of the California Academy of Sciences in the late 1970s. Size: 7.5" L x 5.375" W x 8.25" H (19 cm x 13.7 cm x 21 cm)
The following description was published along with this piece in the catalogue entitled, "Pre Columbian Art from the Land Collection": "A human face, twisted and deformed, is barely discernable in the amorphous general form of the pot. The piece is a variant within a specific category of Moche art known as "collage" pottery, because the amorphous shapes of these vessels resemble the collage assemblages done by artists such as Picasso. This particular example seems to depict a composite human-vegetal form. Many ceramics in this category do combine human and vegetal forms . . . Or the plants are anthropomorphized. . . . The deformity of the human face is especially significant, since it would seem that deformed persons enjoyed a special status in Moche society." (H.B. Nicholson, "Pre-Columbian Art from The Land Collection," California Academy of Sciences, 1979, pg. 231, #191)
Provenance: ex-collection of Lewis Land; Published in Pre-Columbian Art from The Land Collection, pg. 231, #191
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#132046Scattered mineral deposits on the surface. Minor wear with a few scratches and chips to the spout, but otherwise very good with a wonderful lustrous gun metal finish.Condition
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