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Two replicas of Pre-Inca Nazca culture double spout vessels,…
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Auckland
Date:
31-Oct-2017
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Two replicas of Pre-Inca Nazca culture double spout vessels, with frog and locust designs, c.1970s. 8.5 x 12 cm, along with three Chancay textile dolls, 1970s replicas of the pre-Columbian funerary figures. A.B.: 'The two small Nazca, pots, superb fakes, bought from the potter himself, in Nazca. Several generations of this potter's family knew where to go into the foothills of the Andes, for their materials. In the 1960s, a French Museum bought a whole series of them, as genuinely 'old'. The Peruvian government forced the potter to put 'copy' on his work, after that. His prized possession was his Formica table
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Unclassified