Canopa. A small, alpaca-shaped vessel with a wide vertical c - Lot 264

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Canopa. A small, alpaca-shaped vessel with a wide vertical c - Lot 264
Canopa. A small, alpaca-shaped vessel with a wide vertical cavity in its back. The raised head and neck (featuring the woolen “wattle” characteristic of the species and distinguishing it from the llama) as well as the small tail are rendered in the round. The cylindrical cavity carved into the back may have been filled with an offering of coca leaves mixed with animal fat. Hard stone. Peru. Inca civilization. 1400–1532 AD. Dimensions: 12.5 x 8.2 cm. Provenance: Colonel N.R. Colville Collection (1893–1974), M.C., F.S.A., Penheale Manor, Cornwall, before 1974. Sotheby’s, London, Primitive Art, July 15, 1975, Lot No. 4. Private collection, Brussels (illustrated in a 1986 insurance inventory) Passed down through the family
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