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Vase with four hummingbirds and flower
Polychrome terracotta…
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117
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Vase with four hummingbirds and flower
Polychrome terracotta…
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €700
Voluntary lot
Description
Vase with four hummingbirds and flower
Polychrome terracotta.
A few small surface chips and very slight repainting, marks of time.
Nazca, Peru, 200 to 600 AD
17 x 13 cm
Provenance: Sale Paris, Drouot, Maître Loudmer, 15/03/1968, n°74.
Nazca ceramics are distinguished by their mastery of colour and their strong sense of stylisation, making them one of the most characteristic examples of pre-Columbian art. The hummingbird, present in the Nazca iconographic repertoire as far back as the geoglyphs of the Pampa Colorada plateau - which include a hummingbird with its wings spread out some 96 metres - is associated here with a central flower in a composition of four figures arranged in a frieze, evoking the natural cycles to which these coastal societies were closely linked.
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