The Yossef Maiman Collection - Important Pre-Columbian Pottery and Textile Hammeriste and In Cooperation with David Ben Ami Andres Auctions (Antiquities license number 299)
Lot 51540:
The feline (so called mythical spotted-cat) was one of the most important beings in the Nasca iconography. Here it is represented standing on all fours, with whiskered mouth and mask and protruding tongue.
Height: 18.8 cm
For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 23, p. 55 (
https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/offerings_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)
Provenance: Kemper Collection, Switzerland.
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. 55
Notes: The Kepmer collection was created between 1940’s and 1980’s. Items that were not donated to the "The Museum of Islamic Art" were sold at Christie’s Amsterdam, 11th April, 1995.
Condition: For a detailed condition report, please contact us at [email protected]
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