A PAINTED POTTERY ‘FIGURAL’ JAR, LAMBAYAQUE OR TIWANAKU, 1000-1476 AD

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A PAINTED POTTERY ‘FIGURAL’ JAR, LAMBAYAQUE OR TIWANAKU, 1000-1476 AD This lot is from a single owner collection and is therefore offered without reserve The Jorgen Ruben Gallery Ledger, entry from 2005: “No. 219, FH 1975, LA, Peru, early Chancay vessel c. 11th c. AD” Gallery price: EUR 2,800 or approx. EUR 4,700 adjusted for inflation at the time of writing. Peru. Finely potted, the globular body surmounted by a gently flared neck, flanked by a pair of loop handles in the form of crouching monkeys, the body decorated in relief with a male figure on each side, each shown standing frontally and holding flowering maize stalks, wearing an elaborate crescent headdress, the wide face with almond-shaped eyes and mall mouth. Important Note: For essential information on the Jorgen Ruben Gallery Ledger and provenance documentation please visit here: www.zacke.at/rubencollection_ledger Dimensions: Height 24 cm Following the decline of the Wari state around the tenth century, the Andes entered a period of renewed regional florescence, during which powerful local traditions such as Lambayeque/Sicán, Chimú, Chancay, Ica-Chincha, and the later heirs of Tiwanaku developed highly distinctive artistic languages before the rise of the Inca. Wari pottery, with its bold polychromy, abstracted supernatural figures, frontal or profile deities, stepped motifs, and tightly organized decorative fields, had established an influential visual vocabulary that continued to resonate across the Andes long after Wari political authority had faded. Later regional ceramics often transformed this inheritance into more localized idioms, combining painted ornament with modeled relief, animals, ancestral or mythic figures, and emblems of rank or ritual power. The present vessel, with its relief-modeled central figure, attendant animals, and painted surface decoration, may thus be understood within this dynamic post-Wari world, where older pan-Andean religious imagery was reinterpreted through the ceremonial and dynastic traditions of regional cultures before their eventual incorporation into the Inca sphere. Literature comparison: Compare a closely related Lambayeque or Tiwanaku painted pottery jar with similar central figure wearing a crescent headdress, 22.4 cm high, dated 1000-1476, in the Art Institute of Chicago, accession number 1955.2376. Compare a related earlier Moche-Wari culture vase depicting a similarly posed god holding a maize and cassava plant, dated 1st-8th century AD, in the Museum of Civilizations, Rome, inventory number MPE 52065. Compare a related Chancay painted pottery jar, 17.8 cm high, dated 1000-1476, in the Museu Larco, Lima, cataloging code ML039892.

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