Description:

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican / Lambayeque culture, ca. 750 to 1370 CE. A delicate vessel shaped from sheets of hammered copper covered in a wonderfully reflective layer of silver. The vessel exhibits a cupped base with 4 pairs of perforated suspension holes, a carinated circular body with a rounded top, and a broad handle arching between a pair of conical spouts. Attached to the base of each spout is a hammered jaguar head applique with a pointed ear, a large eye, and a trapezoidal snout showing bared fangs. The attachment holes along the foot indicate this vessel was at one time attached to a textile, perhaps as funerary attire. Size: 7.9" W x 6.7" H (20.1 cm x 17 cm); silver quality: 19%

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

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#173448

  • Condition: Possible repairs or reassembly to handle, spouts, foot, and body with bent metal tabs. Bending and indentations to foot, body, spouts, handle, and jaguar heads, with light abrasions and nicks to body, jaguar heads, spouts, and foot, and light encrustations within some recessed areas. Great patina and lustrous surfaces throughout.

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