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Cup with four hummingbirds Polychrome terracotta.
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116
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Cup with four hummingbirds Polychrome terracotta.
See original version (French)
Estimate €250 - €350
Voluntary lot
Description
Cup with four hummingbirds
Polychrome terracotta.
Slight chips and surface wear.
Nazca, Peru, 200-600 AD
H: 6 cm; D: 15.2 cm
Provenance: Sale Paris, Drouot, Maître Boscher, 21/02/1969, no. 120.
The Nazca culture is famous for the quality and chromatic richness of its polychrome ceramics. The hummingbird, a bird with suspended flight and iridescent plumage, occupies a prominent place in its iconographic repertoire - it is notably found among the famous geoglyphs of the Nazca desert. Its representation on this bowl, in four figures arranged in a frieze, bears witness to the symbolic importance attached to this bird, probably associated with the forces of nature and the cycles of fertility.
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