decorative
Lot 51112:
Wooden ceremonial drinking vessel whose painted decoration is divided into three horizonal bands. The decoration includes complex compositions including feline heads with rainbows emerging from their mouths and warriors with square shields. Rainbows and felines were related to battle themes and were frequently represented on queros. They were also considered good omens.
Height: 21.5 cm
Catalogue: 129 (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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