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 Stirrup Spout Effigy Bottle: Squatting Man Holding a Jar, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE

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Start price: $700

Estimated price: $1,500 - $2,500

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Depiction of a crouched man with a small jar resting on his shoulder. The man wears a long tunic, large earplugs, a necklace and bracelets. On his head he has a strange round headdress or a very particular hairstyle.

Height: 19.7 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 49, p. 81 ( 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. 81

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