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Lot 51045:
Two depictions of a hybrid animal with feline-fox head, pelage and clawed paws characteristics of jaguars, and serpent tail. This mythical being most likely expressed immortality, self-regeneration, change and the restoration of order.
Height: 28 cm
Catalogue: 62 (for more details, refer to this number in the literature here: https://shorturl.at/bCKRV)
Provenance: Private collection, Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between 2000-2008. Estate of Yossef Maiman.
Literature: Makowski, Krzystof, Rosenzweif, Alfredo, Diaz Jimenes, Maria Jesus, Weaving for the Afterlife – Peruvian Textiles from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006.
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