The Yossef Maiman Collection - Important Pre-Columbian Pottery and Textile Hammeriste and In Cooperation with David Ben Ami Andres Auctions (Antiquities license number 299)
Lot 51671:
A small wooden figurine of the anthropomorphized feline deity, the mythological Huari Sacrificer. The personage has a feline head, human body and stylized wings. He holds a semicircular knife in his right hand and a human head in the left; two trophy heads adorn the sides of his figure. The sculpture has a tube in the upper part. Originally it was probably covered with a cap and used as a lime container during coca rituals.
Height: 7.5 cm
For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 77, p. 106-107 ( 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. 106-107
Condition: For a detailed condition report, please contact us at [email protected]
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