Description:

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Moche, Phase I, ca. 100 BCE to 100 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel depicting a seated lord king. The vessel itself exhibits a planar base, an anthropomorphic body with a raised head, a stirrup-shaped handle emanating from the verso, and a cylindrical spout topped with a thick, everted rim. The poignant monarch sits cross-legged with hands placed atop bent knees, wears a bangle on each wrist, and dons a tunic with an inverted V incised on the center. His face peers out with generously lidded eyes above linear cicatrices and has pursed lips, spool-adorned ears, and incised cresting waves coursing across his brow. His regal head is topped with a mushroom-shaped cap bearing a central groove flanked by either horizontal or vertical striations, and the entire vessel is covered in dark brown and sandy brown hues. Size: 5.7" W x 7.3" H (14.5 cm x 18.5 cm)

Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection, before 2010; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, acquired in the 1950s to 1960s

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#173445

  • Condition: Repaired with restoration, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Abrasions, light encrustations, and minor softening to some finer details commensurate with age, with light fading to pigment. Nice preservation to figural form.

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