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LOT 2357
Pre-Columbian Chimu Wooden Figure
CIRCA 9TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
15 3/8 in. (1.14 kg total, 39 cm including stand).
Lentoid in section with carved D-shaped face, arms bent and hands pressed together at the chest, short legs with stubby feet; tongue-shaped stele below; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a family collection mostly formed in the 1940s-1950s, thence by descent.
Literature
See Alva, A., Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and the Moon, 5 Continents, Milan, 2012, p.122, for a similar figure.
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