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A Large Spouted Jar with Modeled and Painted Anthropomorphic Figures, Huari-Related Local Style, Peru, 600-1100 CE

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The vessel decorated with modeled nude anthropomorphic figure with monkey-like, rounded ears at the base of the spout and two similar monkey-like beings with painted bodies and open legs showing male genitalia on either side of the jar. Painted representation on the framed frontal panel depicts the frontal view of a nude personage holding shields and weapons.

Height: 37.8 cm

Catalogue: 82 (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.