POST SALE: The Yossef Maiman Collection - Pre-Columbian Art

An Effigy Jar with a Depiction of Three Human Figures, Recuay, Peru, 1-700 CE

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Start price: $400

Estimated price: $1,000 - $1,500

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Lavishly decorated spout-and-handled effigy jar with a ritual scene in which three humans are depicted: a man in a spectacular headdress and large earspools and two female attendants of lower rank. This type of vessel, with sculptural representations and a sophisticated outlet for pouring the liquid, is known by the Quecha word "Paccha".

Height: 21.2 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 72, p. 101 ( 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 Pottery from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006., p. 101

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