Cupisnique Ceramic Bottle with a handle-neck in a stirrup shape. - 30 cm
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Selected by Ruth Garrido Vila
Directed the Ifergan Collection Museum, specialising in Phoenician and Mediterranean archaeology.
Estimate € 1,100 - € 1,400
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Cupisnique ceramic bottle with a legged, ligatured neck, 30 cm high, 19 cm wide and 17 cm deep, dating to 900–200 BC, decorated with an incised mythic scene of a serpent and jaguar on the body and a glossy brown engobe.
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Description from the seller
Bottle with a handle-neck in an angular stirrup, without lip. The body is decorated with a molded mythic scene depicting the two main animals, the serpent and the jaguar. The serpent's body is decorated with incisions.
Brown terracotta with a glossy dark brown black slip.
Cupisnique Culture, Peru, 900-200 BC
Expert: Bénédicte Hamard
Weight: 1092 g
Condition: broken/repaired with restorations
Provenance
Galerie Michaut
- Vente Boisgirard, Drouot, May 21, 2001, lot 9
Old collection of Mr. Boutmy, France
Ader Nordmann sale on 10/10/2017
Similar work
Larco Museum, Lima, inventory ML040339
Bottle with a handle-neck in an angular stirrup, without lip. The body is decorated with a molded mythic scene depicting the two main animals, the serpent and the jaguar. The serpent's body is decorated with incisions.
Brown terracotta with a glossy dark brown black slip.
Cupisnique Culture, Peru, 900-200 BC
Expert: Bénédicte Hamard
Weight: 1092 g
Condition: broken/repaired with restorations
Provenance
Galerie Michaut
- Vente Boisgirard, Drouot, May 21, 2001, lot 9
Old collection of Mr. Boutmy, France
Ader Nordmann sale on 10/10/2017
Similar work
Larco Museum, Lima, inventory ML040339
Details
Culture
Cupisnique
Century/ Timeframe
900-200 av.JC
Name of object
Bottle with a handle-neck in a stirrup shape.
Acquired from
Auction house
Material
Ceramic
Condition
Good
Height
30 cm
Width
19 cm
Depth
17 cm
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