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Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery (2)

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A Cupisnique earthenware stirrup-spout vessel

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery: Pre AD 1000   item# 1117656 (stock# C94621)

A Cupisnique earthenware stirrup-spout vessel
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


$700.00 

An elegant bottle from the North Coast of Peru, vicinity of the Chicama or Moche valleys, showing four transformational shaman heads - man to feline, serpent, or bird predator. These recall highly similar stone carvings from the contemporaneous Late Chavin culture centered at the north central highland site of Chavin de Huantar. The precise use of these vessels is unclear, but they surely factored in ritual ceremonies and events. Thin-walled, finely-tempered, and burnished ceramic with post-fire ...click for details


A Middle Cauca Complex earthenware effigy vessel

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery: Pre 1492   item# 1111337 (stock# C252278)

A Middle Cauca Complex earthenware effigy vessel
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michael cichon tribal arts
941.224.0440


$750.00 .... further provenance available 

A rare type of figurative effigy vessel from the highlands of Colombia with abstracted forms compressed and tense, not unlike a "Jack-in-the-box" toy. Tiny zoomorphic forms hug the edge. Perhaps this effigy form is an allusion to a mythological creation story? Imagery from this region of the Americas is still far from analyzed. The fired earthenware effigy with brick-red and cream paint is both enigmatic and pleasing. It dates to CE 1000-1500. Vessel measures 8.75"H x 6.50"D ...click for details

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