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 Spout-and-Bridge Bottle with a Depiction of a Woman with Decorated Mantle, Middle Nasca, Peru, 200-300 CE

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Start price: $1,500

Estimated price: $3,000 - $5,000

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Depiction of a female with a mantle decorated with three representations of Bloody Mouth – a stylized version of Killer Whale Faces. The biggest animal known by the Nasca people was usually depicted holding or eating trophy heads.

Height: 19.7 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 39, p. 70 ( 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. 70

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