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Lot 51081:
A depiction of a grimacing human face that on one hand can be interpreted as a ate reproduction of one of the less popular types of Moche "portrait vessels" and, on the other hand, as a symbolic vestige form of the Moche wrinkle-face gods.
Height: 17.2 cm
Catalogue: 97 (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.
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