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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 4311269, member: 4654&quot;]In <i>‘The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830’</i>, Johanna Hecht notes that, unlike the silver <i>coqueras</i> which were made in a wide variety of forms, wooden <i>coqueras</i> tended to follow a design prototype: <i>‘the sides are densely covered with applied “cookie-cutter” relief, whose surfaces are textured with regular incisions following the form of foliate ornament, while the cockle-shell shaped hinged cover is formed by radiating gadroons … [which can be].. lent variety by other designs that are interspersed among the plain convex tongues, such as strips of rocaille foliate carving.’ </i>Hecht illustrates a comparable <i>coquera</i> of similar design, also believed to originate from Moxos or Chiquitos and dated circa 1775, which is housed in the collection of the Museo de Arte de Lima (see image below). She comments that: <i>‘Most wood coqueras are either flat or stand on silver ball-feet. The distinctive aspect of this piece lies in the integration of its four wooden feet, formed of winged cherubs’ </i>(ibid, p.342). Our <i>coquera</i> shares this unusual form, being supported by three wooden feet in the shape of mythological female creatures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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