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Ceramic plaque
Chucu culture, Peru
Earthenware, mineral pigments
6 inches high by 10.5 inches wide (15.2 and 10.7 cm)
1300-1600 AD
Ex private collection, Oakland, CA
A curved ceramic plaque painted with anthropomorphic figures and stylized animals (presumably camelid) with a central geomorphic band. The mineral pigments are red (hematite), yellow (lemonite), white (kaolinite), green (boric carbonate copper), and metallic (specularite), mixed with an organic binder, possibly cactus sap.
#5236
$1500
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