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LOT 2239
Pre Columbian Black Ware Vessel with Monkeys
CHIMU CULTURE, 10TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
8 3/8 in. (760 grams, 21.2 cm wide).
Hollow-formed with narrow base funicular mouth with loop handle; modelled as two monkeys copulating, the upper biting the neck of the lower. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired from older English collections via the UK art market since the mid 1970s.
From the private collection of Peran Dachinger, thence by descent.
From the family collection of a Maida Vale lady, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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