used as a cradle or loom support. They are decorated at their ends with protective standing deities wearing rich ponchos and a crown with feline ears. They are engraved with inverted birds gracefully interlocking with each other. It is rare to find pillars of this type with such decoration.
Wood, old marks of use and time
Chimu, Peru, 1100-1450 AD
110.4 x 7.7 x 3.2 cm - 110.4 x 7.7 x 3.4 cm
Provenance: former Bendicht Rudolph Wagner collection, Geneva, 1965. Collection Galerie Mermoz, 2001
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