Lot 63
Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. A hand-built and highly burnished brownware pottery bottle with a round but stable base, a bell-shaped body with a rounded shoulder, a cylindrical neck, and a flared lip. The body is delicately incised with repeating curvilinear bars bearing a pair of semicircular protrusions on either side of a crescent-shaped, beak-like protrusion. The areas between the curvilinear columns exhibit hundreds of incised zigzagging stripes that create a feathery presentation. The abstract avian creatures are perhaps representative of eagles as they were thought to represent solar movements and act as intermediaries between humans and the gods. Size: 5.4" W x 8.9" H (13.7 cm x 22.6 cm)
Provenance: ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, collected from the 1950s to the 1960s
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- Condition: Professional restoration to areas of base, lower body, and upper spout and rim, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Minor abrasions and pitting to base, body, neck, and rim, with softening to areas of incised details, and fading and areas of fire-darkening to surface color. Light earthen deposits throughout. Old inventory label beneath base.
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