decorative
Lot 51086:
A wooden post/statue representing a standing male with a red-painted face and simple headdress. Many wooden figures depicting standing or seated men in rigid poses were found in important Chimu sites. Some of them probably served as grave makers, others were interred with the diseased. The bigger ones probably had some architectural function, they adorned entrances to the buildings.
Height: 127 cm
Catalogue: 101 (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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