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 Spout-and-Bridge Bottle with a Depiction of Two Horrible Birds, Middle Nasca, Peru, 200-300 CE

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Start price: $500

Estimated price: $1,000 - $1,500

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The bottle painted with two depictions of mythical bird creatures decorated with trophy heads related to fertility cults. Both birds also hold trophy heads in their beaks.

Height: 19.1 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 44, p. 75 (
https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/offerings_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)

Provenance: Kemper Collection, Switzerland.

Donated to "The Museum of Islamic Art", Jerusalem, during 1970’s.
Purchased by Yossef Maiman 1991.
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. 75

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.

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