The Yossef Maiman Collection - Important Pre-Columbian Pottery and Textile Hammeriste and In Cooperation with David Ben Ami Andres Auctions (Antiquities license number 299)

A Double-Chambered Whistling Vessel with a Depiction of a Standing Man, Vicus, Peru, 200 BCE-800 CE

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Start price: $300

Estimated price: $600 - $1,000

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The head of the man has fifteen holes in the back and in the face serving as the aucoustic chamber of the whistling vessel. The bottle is ornamented with negative and possible painted decoration.

Height: 21.2 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 17, p.47 ( https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/offerings_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)

Provenance: 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, Offerings for the Afterlife – Peruvian Pottery from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006., p. 47

Condition: For a detailed condition report, please contact us at [email protected]