The Yossef Maiman Collection - Important Pre-Columbian Pottery and Textile Hammeriste and In Cooperation with David Ben Ami Andres Auctions (Antiquities license number 299)
Lot 51647:
Effigy bottle with a very rare representation of a plains or mountain vizcacha (chinchilla family) depicted in a pose typical of feline representations in Moche art.
Height: 21.6 cm
For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 53, p. 85 ( https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/offerings_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)
Provenance: 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, Offerings for the Afterlife – Peruvian Pottery from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006., p. 85
Condition: For a detailed condition report, please contact us at [email protected]
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