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A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: A Deity Playing Panpipe, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE

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The body of the vessel is modeled in the shape of a platform on which the reclining divinity is propped up on his elbows and playing a panpipe. The personage has a wrinkled face and fanged mouth. He is accompanied by a small dog and covered with a blanket decorated with painted motifs of stylized fish and double spirals.

Height: 19.7 cm

Catalogue: 68 (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.