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: Early "Portrait Vessel", Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE

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Start price: $500

Estimated price: $1,000 - $2,000

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The body of the vessel is modeled in the shape of a man’s dead with a painted face and an elaborate cloth headdress tied under the chin and painted with geometrical motifs.

Height: 21.4 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 57, p. 87 ( 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. 87

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