"Terracotta Maternity Peru Moche Culture Certificate Of Authenticity"
Superb beige terracotta statuette with red engoble representing a pregnant woman holding her belly. This kind of representation is called motherhood. We could see a resemblance to our statue-menhirs of Rouergue. In every culture, the cult of the mother is very present. On the back, traces of paintings that can evoke the wavy hair of the woman. A few light chips. Delivered with certificate of authenticity produced by the Ralf Kotalla laboratory in Germany. It confirms the authenticity of the piece and the dating by thermoluminescence gives 1500 of our era, at the time of the Spanish conquest. 16cm high 10cm wide