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A Stirrup-Spout Bottle with a Sitting Fox, Cupisnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE

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The vessel depicts a fox, a prominent figure in pre-Columbian mythology indicating wisdom, intelligence and cunningness.

Height: 23.6 cm

Catalogue: 6 (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.