Lot 178B
Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay, ca. 1200 to 1470 CE. A large bichrome pottery vessel, an egg-shaped amphora used for storing and transporting chicha de jora (fermented corn beer), skillfully modeled and decorated in chocolate brown on cream with a myriad of beautiful geometric motifs inspired by woven textile patterns embellishing the body, neck, and rim - and perhaps most charming, a petite jaguar lying prone and adorning the neck, its head and front legs on one side and its tail and rear legs on the other. Raised nodes known as adornos emerge from the upper end of one side of the vessel; a textile strap held across the forehead would have been threaded through these and the handles in order to carry the vessel. Such transport vessels would have been carried along significant distances. An elaborately detailed and quite sizeable example from the Chancay peoples! Size: 10.2" in diameter x 14.9" H (25.9 cm x 37.8 cm); 14.95" H (38 cm) on included custom stand.
The Chancay people were exceptional ceramic and textile artisans, and archaeologists have often found vessels like this example in the tombs of Chancay nobility. Chancay artisans created ceramics that are quite distinctive in form and decoration - finely painted and molded with specific decorative details carefully added by hand - as we see in this example. The Chancay replaced the Wari, were contemporaries of the Inca, and in their latter period came under Inca influence. Their goods were traded throughout the Andean region.
Compare with similar examples in "Ancestors of the Incas, The Lost Civilizations of Peru" by Kauffmann-Doig, Presented by Wonders, 124/125.
Provenance: ex- C. Luthi collection, Connecticut, USA
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#155701
- Condition: Small section of the spout was restored with light paint enhancements. Otherwise original and intact and in remarkable condition, with light deposits overall and an area of rich calcified encrustations on the back. Excellent preservation of pigment with a few minute chips, stains, nicks, and scratches commensurate with age.
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