Auction on
20 September 2017 - 15:00 (CEST) -
Salle 9 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
What flowed from this shamanistic cup was not deer's blood, but a rich result of €142,399… The sale of the Berjonneau-Muñoz collection of pre-Columbian art, expected to be a key event of the new autumn season at Drouot, fulfilled all its promises with a final result of €2,005,228 including buyers' premiums.
Mochica, Peru, 100-500 AD, shamanistic cup with deer's head foot, gourd, wood, gold leaf and nails, mother-of-pearl, black and blue stones, 18.5 x 18.5 x 13 cm.
Result: €142,399
Mochica, Peru, 100-500 AD, shamanistic cup with deer's head foot, gourd, wood, gold leaf and nails, mother-of-pearl, black and blue stones, 18.5 x 18.5 x 13 cm.
Result: €142,399
All the major pieces were sold. €199,999 went to an anthropozoomorphic idol personifying the god of wind, a stone statue considered by the collector as a "masterpiece…
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