Description
An anthropomorphic monolith sculpture, representing a cross-legged figure with his hands resting on his knees, wearing a so-called winged headdress. This monolithic sculpture from the Jean Roudillon collection is part of a corpus of well-known sculptures, quite numerous, but very rare in private collections. Another of these sculptures, however, existed in the former collection of Joseph Mueller, a very old acquaintance and client of Jean Roudillon. Perpetuating a tradition of Chavin lithic art, none of these monoliths have been discovered in their original context, and the attribution of this stone sculpture tradition to the Recuay culture is arbitrary, even if none of the specialists who have studied these sculptures dispute it. There are two main styles of two carving traditions that would have coexisted over three periods. The Huaraz style, whose presence is reported throughout the Callejon de Huaylas, and the Aija style, on the western slopes of the Cordillera Negra. Despite the surface erosion caused by centuries of weathering, this sculpture, like the one in the Joseph Mueller collection, features a distinctive headdress with engraved decoration, as well as a clearly sculpted sex figure, still clearly visible between its crossed legs, in a ceremonial posture. These enigmatic figures, seated cross-legged or not, feet turned inwards or outwards, sculpted naked or wearing scarves and pectorals, were they guardians, representations of ancestors, votive or funerary sculptures, their mystery accompanies them. Recuay, Aija style, early intermediate 400 BC to 300 AD, Peru Stone, age-related oxidation of the stone, small accidents, beautiful patina and significant age-related erosion H. 47 cm See pp. 4, 5, 100 and 101 in: Inca-Peru 3000 Ans d'Histoire, S. Purini, Musée Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, Ed. Imschoot uitgevers 1990. See for the copy from the Joseph Mueller collection acquired before 1952 (inv. 532-54) p. 92 and 93 fig.235 of Vol 2 of the Sotheby's catalog of the sale of the Barbier-Mueller collection on March 22, 2013 lot 295. Provenance : Jean Roudillon Collection before 1960
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An anthropomorphic monolith sculpture, representing a cross-legged figure with his hands resting on his knees, wearing a so-called winged headdress. This monolithic sculpture from the Jean Roudillon collection is part of a corpus of well-known sculptures, quite numerous, but very rare in private collections. Another of these sculptures, however, existed in the former collection of Joseph Mueller, a very old acquaintance and client of Jean Roudillon. Perpetuating a tradition of Chavin lithic art, none of these monoliths have been discovered in their original context, and the attribution of this stone sculpture tradition to the Recuay culture is arbitrary, even if none of the specialists who have studied these sculptures dispute it. There are two main styles of two carving traditions that would have coexisted over three periods. The Huaraz style, whose presence is reported throughout the Callejon de Huaylas, and the Aija style, on the western slopes of the Cordillera Negra. Despite the surface erosion caused by centuries of weathering, this sculpture, like the one in the Joseph Mueller collection, features a distinctive headdress with engraved decoration, as well as a clearly sculpted sex figure, still clearly visible between its crossed legs, in a ceremonial posture. These enigmatic figures, seated cross-legged or not, feet turned inwards or outwards, sculpted naked or wearing scarves and pectorals, were they guardians, representations of ancestors, votive or funerary sculptures, their mystery accompanies them. Recuay, Aija style, early intermediate 400 BC to 300 AD, Peru Stone, age-related oxidation of the stone, small accidents, beautiful patina and significant age-related erosion H. 47 cm See pp. 4, 5, 100 and 101 in: Inca-Peru 3000 Ans d'Histoire, S. Purini, Musée Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, Ed. Imschoot uitgevers 1990. See for the copy from the Joseph Mueller collection acquired before 1952 (inv. 532-54) p. 92 and 93 fig.235 of Vol 2 of the Sotheby's catalog of the sale of the Barbier-Mueller collection on March 22, 2013 lot 295. Provenance : Jean Roudillon Collection before 1960
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