decorative
Lot 51087:
The sculpture represents a naked female with an unnaturally large head standing in a rigid position. Her hair and eye sockets were painted dark brown, and her face with a glossy paint of red cinnabar resin. The woman’s torso and her extremities are less carefully sculptured and it is possible they were originally covered. Figures of female characters are much rarer than males in Chimu art.
Height: 106 cm
Catalogue: 102 (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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