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Chimu Effigy Vessel + Moche Lizard Effigy Vessel

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Description

**Originally Listed At $400**

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche V, ca. 600 to 800 CE; Central Coast of Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A wonderful blackware effigy vessel of a spondylus shell or urchin, and a mold made stirrup vessel with lizards. The Moche shell vessel rests on a flattened base, the rounded body split into sections the surface studded with petite nubbins pines with vertical ridges that meet at the neck. The other Chimu vessel has a flared foot with a carinated body with low relief lizards across the top, their tails meeting at the center. Although cute, the lizards were important in Moche and Chimu cultures as sources of food and as symbols of regeneration, fertility, and were characters in epic tales and myths. Size: 7.5" L x 5" W x 9.75" H (19 cm x 12.7 cm x 24.8 cm)

Provenance: private Birmingham, Michigan, USA collection, purchased September 15th, 2019; ex-private collection, acquired 1976

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Condition

Black ware is restored and repaired, and lizard vessel is repaired along body. Both with abrasions and softening to finer details, otherwise in good condition. Nice preservation to colors.

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Chimu Effigy Vessel + Moche Lizard Effigy Vessel

Name: Chimu Effigy Vessel + Moche Lizard Effigy Vessel
SKU: 152834359
Price: 300 USD
Availability: InStock

Estimate $600 - $900

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