Description:

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 1200 to 1450 CE. A wonderful cuchimilco ("star gazer") figure, of a traditional hollow-molded, stylized form, decorated with a bichrome black-on-cream palette. The figure stands up straight with legs together, upraised arms, and cupped hands facing outward. Her chest is covered with a black garment or body paint, though her breasts/nipples are revealed. Her dramatic visage presents a mask over her coffee bean shaped eyes, a protruding pointed nose, an open mouth revealing clenched teeth, and wonderful linear and jagged tattoos or face paint markings adorning her cheeks, mouth, chin, and ears. A black cap-like headdress or coiffure tops the figure with three perforations for suspension or attachment. Size: 6.4" W x 9" H (16.3 cm x 22.9 cm)

Provenance: private Colgate, Wisconsin, USA collection, acquired 1970s to 1990s; ex-private Andy Morrow collection

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#156799

  • Condition: Nicks to limbs, body, and head, with small excision on front right side of pelvis, and bubbling to areas of black pigment commensurate with elevated firing temperature, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits and remains of pigment throughout. Old inventory label beneath feet.

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