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Lot 51083:
The body of the vessel represents a supernatural male toad with two depictions of snakes in relief on the upper parts of its body. Toads and serpents were certainly related in some way to fertility cults and water rites.
Height: 23.3 cm
Catalogue: 98 (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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