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Lot 51004:
The feline (so called mythical spotted-cat) was one of the most important beings in the Nasca iconography. Here it is represented standing on all fours, with whiskered mouth and mask and protruding tongue.
Height: 18.8 cm
Catalogue: 23 (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.
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