A Paccha Vessel: Duck Figure, Chimu, Peru, 900-1470 CE
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Description
A finely furnished black figurine of a duck with two openings. It might have served as a ritual paccha vessel used during ceremonies celebrating land and animal fertility.
Height: 16.5 cm
For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 93, p. 125 ( https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/offerings_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)
Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between 2000-2008. Estate of Yossef Maiman.
Literature: Makowski, Krzystof, Rosenzweif, Alfredo, Diaz Jimenes, Maria Jesus, Offerings for the Afterlife - Peruvian Textiles from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006., p. 125
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