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 Wooden Loom Support, Chancay, Peru, 900-1470 CE

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Start price: $800

Estimated price: $1,600 - $2,400

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A loom support with two openings carved from hard and heavy huarango three wood, is decorated with a depiction of a standing priest or dieity with a lavishly ornamented headdress, large earspools and a short tunic with a belt. Originally this loom support probably had seven or eight openings.

Height: 43 cm

For more details on this lot, refer to the following number in the link: num 113, p. 138( https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/offerings_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)

Provenance: The Dubiner Collection of Pre-Columbian Art, Ramat Gan, 1993.

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. 138

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