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: Classic "Portrait Vessel", Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE

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Start price: $1,500

Estimated price: $3,000 - $6,000

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The man represented in the vessel has an elaborate cloth headdress decorated with geometrical motifs. His has and neck are adorned with red-brown and black painting.

Height: 30.7 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 58, p. 88 ( 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. 88

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