Double-bodied whistling vessel, Vicus, northern... Lot 930

Double-bodied whistling vessel, Vicus, northern Peru, ca. 200 BC - 600 AD. Reddish clay with remains of dark red and black painting, length 26.5 cm, resembling a wine jug with a long narrow neck on the right (mouth opening has old damage), connected by a tube and a flat, slightly curved dumbbell above to a second vessel that resembles an oversized cooking pot with flames shooting up the rim. In it sits a man with a hooked nose, his arms sticking out and holding the rim. At the back of the head there are three vertical rows, each with 3 holes for the whistle sound. If one were to suggest that the creator of this amusing whistle vessel had depicted a Spanish monk (recognizable by his tonsure) in a cooking pot (the flames), one would probably not be wrong, but cannibalism is not known to have existed in this period. Provenance: A. Maurer before 1988, Auction Vogler 2015, Private collection, Germany