decorative
Lot 51084:
The bottle with a short pedestal and a body in the shape of a schematically rendered male head with an elaborately decorated headdress and particularly interesting hairstyle. The hair is braided in many thin plaits forming two long, side plaits and thick plait at the back of the head.
Height: 23.1 cm
Catalogue: 99 (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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