decorative
Lot 51082:
An effigy jar in the shape of a schematically-rendered ithyphallic man, seated and holding his oversized penis. The male – probably a supernatural personage related to fertility rites – is wearing a simple headdress and has a cord around his neck on which a tumi ceremonial knife is attached.
Height: 18.8 cm
Catalogue: 95 (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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