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 Tunic (Unku) with Stepped Rhombi and Horizontal Bands, South Coast, Peru, Late Horizon, 1450-1550 CE

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Estimated price: $200 - $300

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Ica-Inca Style

Cotton and multicolored camelid fiber plain weave warp face with supplementary weft patterning, overcasting stitch and cross-knit loop stitch.

88 x 83 cm 

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 247, p. 298 ( https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/weaving_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)

Provenance: Exibited at "Haifa Museum of Art" (according to the literature)Acquired by the Maiman Group in 1988. Estate of Yossef Maiman.

Literature: Makowski, Krzystof, Rosenzweif, Alfredo, Diaz Jimenes, Maria Jesus, Weaving for the Afterlife – Peruvian Textiles from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006., p. 298

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