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Lot 50942:
Ica-Inca Style
Cotton and multicolored camelid fiber. This piece is composed of four squares joined together. The sewing with cotton threads seems to be old. The individual squares have end terminators and each two diagonal squares are related. The square on the top right and one on the bottom left are on white base with paired warps, plain weave and red brocade covering. The squares on the top left and bottom right are on brown plain weave, brocaded.
53 x 53 cm
Catalogue: 249
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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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