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A Double Spout-and-Bridge Bottle with Depictions of Supernatural Beings, Lambayeque, Peru, 750-1350 CE

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A classical Lambayeque bottle with a beautiful openwork bridge on which three anthropomorphic mythical personages are depicted. The sides of the bottle are decorated with two stylized heads of the Moon Animal and painted ornaments.

Height: 21.4 cm

Catalogue: 88 (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.