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LOT 2234
Moche Painted Pottery Stirrup Jar with Battle Scenes
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
8 1/2 in. (646 grams, 21.5 cm).
Stirrup jar with reserved scene to each face, figure to left with collar of reserved disc wearing an animal-skin cap and with a trailing loincloth golding a wedge in his right hand and grasping a curved bar attached to the face of the supine right figure with bird-crested cap gripping his wrist.
ProvenanceFranziska Gassner (1907-2005), Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, assembled between 1945 and 1980.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
See Quilter, J., The Moche of Ancient Peru, Peabody Museum Press, 2010, p.132, for an example in similar style.
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