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A Stirrup-Spout Bottle with Human Head Effigy, Chavin, Peru, 900-200 BCE

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The body of the vessel represents a human head ornamented with a simple face painting, small earplugs and finely striated coiffure.

Height: 21.6 cm

Catalogue: 3 (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.