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A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: A Mythical Tuber Depiction, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE

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A depiction of an irregular-shaped sweet potato tuber with representations of two human faces, two monkeys and three birds. Representations of this type suggest a close relationship between plants, animals and humans.

Height: 19.6 cm

Catalogue: 67 (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.