decorative
Lot 51097:
A loom support with two openings carved from hard and heavy huarango three wood, is decorated with a depiction of a standing priest or dieity with a lavishly ornamented headdress, large earspools and a short tunic with a belt. Originally this loom support probably had seven or eight openings.
Height: 43 cm
Catalogue: 113 (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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