decorative
Lot 51074:
A high ranking personage standing on a stepped platform is playing on a conch trumpet. Such instruments were made of Strombus shells imported from the tropical waters of the Ecuadorian coast and were very popular in many Peruvian cultures.
Height: 14.4 cm
Catalogue: 89 (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.
Share this lot:
