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Toutes les enchères / Ethnographie / Chancay Bichrome Gourd-Shaped Vessel w/ Monkey
Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay. A ceramic vessel of swelling gourd form, the globular chamber rising to a short bulging neck whose rim curves inward, flanked at the shoulder by two pierced lug handles. A monkey clambers up the side in full relief, forelimbs thrown over the neck and hind feet braced against the belly, its long tail looping down in a smoky black band that also darkens the muzzle, ears, and one shoulder against the pale buff of the body. The two-tone surface was likely achieved through controlled reduction firing rather than applied pigment, a hallmark of central-coast Peruvian potting. Monkeys recur across Chancay ceramics as agile, faintly comic presences, and the vessel probably served both household and burial use, roles seldom kept apart in this tradition. The Chancay flourished in the river valleys north of present-day Lima during the Late Intermediate Period, after the collapse of the Wari state and before the Inca absorbed the coast in the later fifteenth century. Their potters worked at scale, producing mold-made and hand-modeled wares in enormous quantity for tombs in the dry coastal cemeteries, where textiles and ceramics survived in extraordinary numbers. The signature Chancay palette is a matte black or dark brown over a chalky cream slip, and the workshops favored a repertory of standing figures, birds, and animals whose forms are simplified almost to caricature, a directness that has made Chancay pottery a favorite of modernist collectors since the mid-twentieth century. Monkeys were not native to the desert coast but arrived through long-standing exchange with the eastern Amazonian slopes, along with feathers, tropical woods, and coca. Their appearance on coastal vessels carries that whiff of the exotic, and in Andean iconography the monkey often signals fertility, abundance, and the unruly vitality of the forest lowlands. Item # 204694
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