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Chavin Gold head Ornament, ca. 1000-400 B.C.
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
- Gold
the crown outspread and forming the long rectangle, repoussé with a band of four confronted grinning profile heads within a guilloche frame; pierced on the lower ends for attachment.
Provenance
Alan Lapiner
Acquired from the above before 1970
Literature
Ferdinand Anton, Alt-Peru und Seine Kunst, E.A. Seemann, Leipzig, 1972, pl. 8
Alan Lapiner, Pre-Columbian Art of South America, New York, 1976, colorplate 109
Catalogue Note
Anton (1972:325) notes the similarity of the faces on this ornament to the heads on the Cerro Sechin stone carvings, commemorating a mythical or real battle, see Burger (1992:79). Also see Hoyle (1966:colorplate 142), for the gold headdress type.