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Realistic Moche Pottery Portrait Vessel, ex-Sotheby's

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Realistic Moche Pottery Portrait Vessel, ex-Sotheby's

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Description

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche III, ca 350 to 500 CE. An excellent realistic portrait vessel, showing a figure with wide eyes, a prominent nose with high nostrils, and a thin-lipped, expressive mouth. The figure wears some kind of headdress or cowl that covers all but the immediate features of the face; this is decorated with geometric patterns that call to mind mountainous landscapes. This was sculpted as a portrait of an important member of Moche society. This stirrup-spouted vessel would have been made without the aid of a potter's wheel. Like many luxury items, this vessel probably had a variety of functions, all designed to show the wealth of the figure in the portrait: it may have been a gift, or an item for drinking from at feasts, and would ultimately have been buried as a funerary offering. Size: 4.7" W x 9.8" H (11.9 cm x 24.9 cm)

Provenance: Ex - Young collection, Colorado Springs, CO; Sotheby Parke Bernet 11/14/73 auction, Lot #307

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Condition

Small chip from spout as well as small restored area at rear of spout rim, otherwise intact with a great deal of pigment remaining.

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Realistic Moche Pottery Portrait Vessel, ex-Sotheby's

Name: Realistic Moche Pottery Portrait Vessel, ex-Sotheby's
SKU: 47128918
Price: 1200 USD
Availability: InStock

Estimate $1,200 - $1,500

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