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 Mythical Killer Whale, Late Nasca, Peru, 300-600 CE

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Start price: $2,000

Estimated price: $6,000 - $10,000

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The bottle decorated with two very similar Mythical Killer Whale depictions. This being has gaping jaws covered with blood , human legs and arms, and a loincloth. His hands are holding a weapon. The body of the animal is filled with schematically depicted trophy heads.

Height: 15.2 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 45, p. 76 ( 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. 76

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