Lot 115
  • 115

Group of Five Peruvian and Costa Rican objects,

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Description

including a Huari/Tiahuanaco hammered gold ornament repoussé with a face of small mouth and circular eyes, a separate forked plume inserted at the top, and a sheet ornament with four plumes, with faint remains of facial features, together with a Huari greenstone figure with right hand on the chest, with gentle expression, wearing segmented cap and collar, an Inca blackstone Ilama canopa, and a Costa Rican jade axe god pendant fragment, with hands on the waist, and drilled eyes and mouth.

Exhibited

Utrecht, 'De Schatten van Peru', Centraal Museum der Gemeente, Utrecht, August 21-October 31, 1954, cat. no. 200 a and b, for the first two, and  pl. 25, illus. for the first. 

Cologne, 'Schaetze aus Peru, von Chavin bis zu den Inca', Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, June  20- September 6, 1959, cat. no. 540 for the first, cat. no. 541, for the second.

Catalogue Note

See illustration of the gold objects