The Yossef Maiman Collection - Important Pre-Columbian Pottery and Textile Hammeriste and In Cooperation with David Ben Ami Andres Auctions (Antiquities license number 299)

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 at 3:00 PM UTC

A Silver Spatula with Bird-Shaped Handle, Chimu, Peru, 900-1470 CE

Start price: $200

Estimated price: $400 - $600

Buyer's premium: 22%

Sales Tax: On buyer's premium only

Sold for: $200

Silver lime spatula with a modeled representation of a hummingbird sitting on a stepped cross.

Height: 8.9 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 105, p. 132 ( 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 Textiles from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006., p. 132

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