Romain BEOT
His body is very muscular, with his arms resting on his thighs. He wears a loincloth tied with a truncated shell-shaped sex cover. His face is...
*Singing vase with double sides
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*Singing vase with double sides
One of them features an effigy of a figure with a skeletal face, his powerful hands crossed on his knees. He wears a poncho with a licia cape and a balaclava over his head. This work evokes the passage to another world and the duality of life and death. Among this people, death was seen as the continuity of existence in another dimension. Cream-decorated orange terracotta, age marks, good overall condition. Viru, Peru, 200 B.C.-A.D. 200 18.7 x 21.2 x 10.7 cm Provenance: Former French collection. Former American collection. Vincent Wapler sale, May 6, 2011, lot 2. Eve sale, June 23, 2017, lot 152. A thermoluminescence analysis from the QED laboratory will be provided to the buyer.Sale ended
Estimate
€1,400 - €1,800
Sold to
€1,300
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