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: Human Skull, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE

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Start price: $1,000

Estimated price: $2,000 - $4,000

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Skeletal figures were frequently depicted in Moche art. They represented the "living dead" who appeared in various ritual scenes as living people.

Height: 22.5 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 65, p. 94 ( 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. 94

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