decorative
Lot 51095:
An effigy vessel in the schematic rendition of a deer head with beautifully modeled antlers. Deer played an important role throughout the Americas as mediators between the world of the living and the dead.
Height: 13.1 cm
Catalogue: 111 (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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