Auction on
06 June 2019 - 16:00 (CEST) -
Salle 7 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
In the earliest centuries of our era, a pre-Inca culture developed in Peru that still surprises us today with the high quality of its arts, such as this funerary mask sold by Binoche and Giquello in Paris.
Northern Peru, Ancient Middle Mochica culture, 100-700 AD, wooden funerary mask with traces of red pigment, 20 x 26 x 13.5 cm. Estimate: €200,000/300,000
Northern Peru, Ancient Middle Mochica culture, 100-700 AD, wooden funerary mask with traces of red pigment, 20 x 26 x 13.5 cm. Estimate: €200,000/300,000
Carved by one of the rivers flowing down from the Andes, the Moche Valley witnessed the blossoming of the Mochicas’ first achievements. A people without writing, they left not a chronicle of their history, but temples and tombs. These wonders point to a hierarchical society: lords and shamans…
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