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A Beaker with Two Depictions of the Anthropomorphic Mythical Being, Late Nasca, Peru, 300-600 CE

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Tall beaker with two similar representations of mythical personages depicted with feline mouth masks, human arms and legs and very long bodies adorned with emerging trophy heads.

Height: 17.2 cm

Catalogue: 41 (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.