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LOT 2601
Pre-Columbian Ceramic Erotic Vessel
CHIMU, 9TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
6 in. (402 grams, 15.2 cm).
Ovaloid body with a line of geometric decoration supporting an embracing couple engaged in coitus, conical tapering neck with some chips to the rim. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private family collection of Ersula Barter-Hemmerich, the longest serving member of staff working at the United Nations, her private collection formed in the 1950s and 1960s; thence by descent to her grandson.
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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