Inca Blackware Cacique Stirrup Vessel
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Pre-Columbian, central coast Peru, Inca, ca. 1200 to 1532 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery stirrup vessel depicting a cacique (prominent societal elder) in a seated position. The figure wears a tunic with two bands of cresting waves and holds a spondylus shell in both hands, perhaps as a type of pan flute. He stares outwards with large ovoid eyes and wears a peaked headdress with an abstract anthropomorphic face on the verso. The stirrup-shaped handle showcases a petite simian creature on the verso who grasps the back of the cylindrical spout. Size: 4.1" W x 7.6" H (10.4 cm x 19.3 cm)
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hirsch collection, New York City, New York, USA, 1950 to 1970
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#159501
Pre-Columbian, central coast Peru, Inca, ca. 1200 to 1532 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery stirrup vessel depicting a cacique (prominent societal elder) in a seated position. The figure wears a tunic with two bands of cresting waves and holds a spondylus shell in both hands, perhaps as a type of pan flute. He stares outwards with large ovoid eyes and wears a peaked headdress with an abstract anthropomorphic face on the verso. The stirrup-shaped handle showcases a petite simian creature on the verso who grasps the back of the cylindrical spout. Size: 4.1" W x 7.6" H (10.4 cm x 19.3 cm)
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hirsch collection, New York City, New York, USA, 1950 to 1970
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.
#159501
Condition
Minor abrasions and fading to black pigment, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation of finer details throughout. Old inventory label beneath base.
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Inca Blackware Cacique Stirrup Vessel
Estimate $1,200 - $1,800
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