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Pre-Columbian stirrup handle vase - Chauvin culture, Peru
Stirrup-shaped vase ending in a wide, powerful flat-lipped neck.
The body is decorated with a wave motif.
Provenance: Former Bendicht Rudolf Wagner collection, Geneva, circa 1990. Collection Berjonneau-Muñoz Bibliography: "Pre-Columbian Art of South America", Alain Lapiner, Editions Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (August 1976), Lapinter no. 88. Pre-Columbian Art Coll. - Berjonneau-Munoz, Millon September 2017, p. 14
REGION: Peru
MATERIAL: Terracotta
TIME: Chauvin Cupisnique culture, 1200-500 BC
DIMENSION: 25 x 10 x 10 cm
inventory no.: AMS026
Ref: 68CBBQRZQM