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Long-necked bottle with deity face
Early Art of Peru
In the Andes, the last millennium B.C. witnessed an explosive increase in art production and a consistent set of visual motifs across a variety of media. Fierce, fanged creatures blending the qualities of humans and predatory animals appear in abundance, brandishing long claws. The style was traditionally associated with the ritual center of Chavin de Huantar, and objects encountered across Peru that share these visual qualities have been described as “Chavin style.” However, the style likely originated far from Chavin, on the central coast of Peru, in a culture known as Manchay. Across Peru, artists from a range of regions drew on the Chavin style, demonstrating their familiarity with this artistic mode while maintaining their own local identities.
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900–600 B.C.
South America, Peru, North coast, Tembladera
<p> By 1969, Arts of the Four Quarters, Ltd. (Alan C. Lapiner [1933-1975]), New York [1]; April 8, 1972, Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, New York, sale, Lot 49 (bought-in) [2]; before March 1973, André Emmerich, New York [3]; October 18, 1975, sold to Joyce Strauss, Denver [4]; April 20, 1989, sold to US private collection [5]. August 25, 2014, sold to the Princeton University Art Museum. </p> <p> Notes: <br> [1] According to André Emmerich, Sun Gods and Saints: Art of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Peru, and Exhibition Organized in Cooperation with Alan C. Lapiner, December 6 to 31, 1969 (New York: André Emmerich, Inc., 1969), cat. 14. <br> [2] According to Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, Pre-Columbian Art from the Inventory of Arts of the Four Quarters, Ltd. (New York: Sotheby’s, 1972, lot 49. According to December 5, 2023, email correspondence between Bryan R. Just, Princeton, and Stacy Goodman, Sotheby’s, New York, the work did not sell at auction. Copies in the curatorial file. <br> [3] According to email correspondence between Bryan R. Just, Princeton, and Stacy Goodman, Sotheby’s, New York, from December 5, 2023, Lapiner sold or gifted the work to Emmerich. Additionally, the work is listed on an Emmerich archive catalogue card (object S-9475). Additionally, according to December, 2023, email correspondence between Bryan R. Just, Princeton and Andrew Witkin, of what is now the Krakow Witkin Gallery, the Harcus Krakow Gallery presented a selection of objects from Emmerich’s inventory in the sale exhibition Pre-Columbian Art from March 3-31, 1973. This accords with a note on the Emmerich archive card. Copies in the curatorial file. <br> [4] According to Emmerich archive catalogue card (object S-9475). Copy in curatorial file. <br> [5] According to US private collection. <br> </p>
André Emmerich Gallery, <em>Sun Gods and Saints: Art of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Peru</em> (New York: Andre Emmerich, Inc., 1969)., cat. no. 14
2586 1969"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2014", <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </em>74 (2015): p. 55-77., p. 59
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