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 Square with Four Brocaded Decorations, South Coast, Peru, Late Horizon, 1450-1550 CE

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Start price: $200

Estimated price: $400 - $600

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Ica-Inca Style

Cotton and multicolored camelid fiber. This piece is composed of four squares joined together. The sewing with cotton threads seems to be old. The individual squares have end terminators and each two diagonal squares are related. The square on the top right and one on the bottom left are on white base with paired warps, plain weave and red brocade covering. The squares on the top left and bottom right are on brown plain weave, brocaded.

53 x 53 cm 

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 249, p. 301
( 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. 301

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