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A Double-Chambered Bottle with Feline a Depiction, Huari-Related Local Style, Peru, 600-1100 CE

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One chamber of the vessel is modeled in the shape of a seated anthropomorphized feline; the other has a simple globular form and is decorated with highly-stylized, profile depictions of fantastic beings with feline heads and triangular tails.

Height: 15.4 cm

Catalogue: 84 (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.