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LOT 2294
Pre-Columbian Late Inca Polychrome Wooden Kero
15TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/2 in. (998 grams, 19 cm high).
Decorated using pigmented resin inlay to depict a frieze of figures and birds within panels created by ribbons radiating from masks, medial band of geometric forms, floral motifs below; cleaned and conserved.
ProvenanceAcquired 1960s-1970s.
Jan Pelles / Lyngbye collection.
Senatus Consulto, Denmark, 2010.
Ex private collection of Mr N.J., Leicester, UK.
See Geiger, G., At the Heart of Pre Columbian America, 5 Continents, Milan, 2003, p.216, no. 175, for a kero of similar design.
FootnotesThese early colonial drinking cups display a combination of Spanish influence in the depiction of figures and flowers while retaining the indigenous preference for geometric design.
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