Ovoid anthropomorphic vase, cylindrical head surmounting a g - Lot 219

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Ovoid anthropomorphic vase, cylindrical head surmounting a g - Lot 219
Ovoid anthropomorphic vase, cylindrical head surmounting a globular body, face and geometric motifs painted brown-black; arms in slight relief meeting on the chest holding a cup. Beige terracotta with cream slip, brown-black painted decoration. H. 33 cm × W. 17 cm Chancay culture, AD 1000-1450 Peru, central coast (Chancay valley). Condition: minor chips and small surface concretions. Provenance: Henri André Jean FAVRE Collection (1937-2025) (probably acquired before 1970) Sociologist, researcher and teacher, Henri Favre focused his academic work on the Indian peasant insurrections that punctuated the colonial and republican history of Latin America. He began his research at the Instituto Nacional Indigenista in Mexico, then boarded at the Institut Français d'Etudes Andines, before joining the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1966. For almost twenty years at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l'Amérique Latine, he led a post-graduate seminar on the ethnosociology of peasant Indians in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Henri Favre was Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS. He is the author of numerous works on the Incas, the Mayas, Peru, Mexico, the indigenous movement in Latin America...
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