Auction 105

15 November 2025

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PERU, MOCHE

31  Drei Spinnwirtel, ca. 400 - 600

n. Chr. (*)

Holz, Terrakotta, schwarz, rot und

cremeweiß bemalt,

Three spindle whorls, ca. 400 -

600 AD (*)

wood, terracotta, painted in black, red

and creme white

Provenance

Ilse & Karl-Otto Spelger, Mannheim,

Germany (coll. in the early 1960s)

L: 22,5 cm & 23,5 cm & 33 cm

€ 400 - 800

PERU, NAZCA

35  Keramik-Trommel, ca. 200 -

600 n. Chr. (*)

dreifarbige Bemalung, Sammlungs-

etikett „120“

Keramiktrommeln mit zentralen, ge-

wölbten Klangkammern wurden in

Südperu um die Jahrtausendwende

hergestellt. Zu den am aufwändigs-

ten gearbeiteten gehören die Trom-

meln im Nazca-Stil. Eine beliebte Form

war die einer dickleibigen Figur, die

in die Form des Instruments einge-

arbeitet war.

Ceramic drum, ca. 200 - 600 AD (*)

three-coloured painting, collection

label „120“

Ceramic drums with central, bulging

sounding chambers were made in

southern Peru at the turn of the first

millennium. Among the most elabora-

tely finished are those of Nazca style.

A favoured form was one in which a

fat-bodied figure worked into the sha-

pe of the instrument.

H: 22,5 cm

Provenance

Bruno Mattel, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Klaus Kalz, Berlin, Germany (1976)

Vgl. Lit.: Berrin, Kathleen (ed.), The

spirit of ancient Peru, San Francisco

1998, p. 171, ill. 113

€ 1.200 - 2.500

Lot 31