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A miniature female offering, solid cast. With arms and hands folded over the bust, combed with long braids in two distinct bands separated in the middle and tied at the bottom, this offering corresponds to a well-established archetype. Male figurines, also respecting another archetype, also exist. Often in silver, hollow or solid, more rarely in gold and solid silver as is the case here, the study of several groups of these miniature figurines testifies to the fact that their production had to be perfectly controlled. These votive figurines were dressed and then buried, in the foundations serving as an offering and constituting a sacrifice to the construction of a building or in the corner of a field to attract divine graces in order to obtain good or better harvests. Inca culture, 1450 to 1533 A.D., Peru Alloy of gold and silver with a small amount of iron, old wear and very beautiful old patina H. 3.3 cm See pp. 306-310 for other comparable examples in: Inca -Peru 3000 Ans d'Histoire, S. Purini, Musée Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, Ed. Imschoot uitgevers 1990. See for the example from the Joseph Mueller collection, acquired before 1952 (inv. 532-51) p. 123 fig.264 of Vol 2 in: the Sotheby's catalog of the sale of the Barbier-Mueller collection on March 22, 2013 lot 294. Provenance: Jean Roudillon Collection

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A miniature female offering, solid cast. With arms and hands folded over the bust, combed with long braids in two distinct bands separated in the middle and tied at the bottom, this offering corresponds to a well-established archetype. Male figurines, also respecting another archetype, also exist. Often in silver, hollow or solid, more rarely in gold and solid silver as is the case here, the study of several groups of these miniature figurines testifies to the fact that their production had to be perfectly controlled. These votive figurines were dressed and then buried, in the foundations serving as an offering and constituting a sacrifice to the construction of a building or in the corner of a field to attract divine graces in order to obtain good or better harvests. Inca culture, 1450 to 1533 A.D., Peru Alloy of gold and silver with a small amount of iron, old wear and very beautiful old patina H. 3.3 cm See pp. 306-310 for other comparable examples in: Inca -Peru 3000 Ans d'Histoire, S. Purini, Musée Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, Ed. Imschoot uitgevers 1990. See for the example from the Joseph Mueller collection, acquired before 1952 (inv. 532-51) p. 123 fig.264 of Vol 2 in: the Sotheby's catalog of the sale of the Barbier-Mueller collection on March 22, 2013 lot 294. Provenance: Jean Roudillon Collection

Estimate 1 500 - 1 800 EUR

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