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Stirrup vase with incised decoration of feline divinities
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68
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Stirrup vase with incised decoration of feline divinities
Or…
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €700
Voluntary lot
Description
Stirrup vase
with incised decoration of feline divinities
Orange, beige and brown terracotta, broken and glued, chips on the neck.
Chavín-Tembladera, Peru, ancient horizon, 700-100 BC
H. 27.5 × D. 20 cm
Provenance: acquired from the Ica Gallery, Barcelona, on 5 November 1997
Digital copy of thermoluminescence analysis by Laboratoire Kotalla, 5 October 1995
The Chavín culture played a major role in Andean formative cultures, disseminating widely shared iconographic models. Stylized feline representations, combined with linear claw motifs, testify to the importance of animal figures linked to the divine world. This vase stands out for the quality of its incised decoration: the feline divinities, treated with remarkable regularity and precision all over the body, form a surface that is both rhythmic and hieratic, characteristic of the formal elegance of Chavín-Tembladera production.
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