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A Double Spout-and-Bridge Animal Effigy Vessel, Late Nasca, Peru, 300-600 CE

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Probably a very rare representation of a small-eared zorro with a small animal in its mouth.

Height: 15.8 cm

Catalogue: 28 (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.