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Chavin Redware Anthropomorphic Vessel - K.034
Origin: Northern Coast of Peru
Circa: 900
BC
to 500
BC
Dimensions:
9.5" (24.1cm) high
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Terracotta
$4,500.00
Location: United States
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On this unusual pot, it is difficult to tell where
the figure leaves off and the vessel begin.
Rendered with naive charm, it combines surface
modeling with etched lines and textured
decoration. Though hardly a realistic approach to
the human figure, it evokes with lively style the
lives of those who held it long ago. We can
imagine some potter shaping it and selling it,
another person filling it with an offering of drink
and placing it in some ancient tomb to pass
eternity with the deceased. In such a vessel we
feel the very pulse of the vanished culture that
created it.
- (K.034)
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