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Lot 50810:
Chimu, Toothed-Crescent Headdress Style
Cotton and multicolored camelid fiber in slit tapestry (long slits sewed), the side appendages plain weave with weft-faced stripes and supplementary wefts (brocade) and embroidery (tassels).
50 x 110 cm
Catalogue: 114 (for more details, refer to this number in the literature here: https://shorturl.at/fisMU)
Provenance: Private collection, Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between 2000-2008. Estate of Yossef Maiman.
Notes: Most items from the Cottier collection were purchased from prominent collectors such as Carlos Campilli (Miami), Sophie Pdgorska (Geneva) and Marguerite Motte (Paris).
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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