The Yossef Maiman Collection - Important Pre-Columbian Pottery and Textile Hammeriste and In Cooperation with David Ben Ami Andres Auctions (Antiquities license number 299)

A White Shirt (Unku) with Bird Fret and Double Spiral Motifs, South Coast, Peru, Late Horizon, 1450-1550 CE

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Start price: $200

Estimated price: $400 - $600

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Chimu-Influenced Nasca-Inca

White stripped cotton and dark brown camelid fiber. The textile panel plain weave warp face with supplementary wefts resembling tapestry. The fringe band plain weave weft face.

87 x 74 cm 

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 260, p.  312 ( https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/weaving_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)

Provenance: Exibited at "Haifa Museum of Art" (according to the literature)Acquired by the Maiman Group in 1988. 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., p. 312

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