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

A Large Sleeveless Shirt (Unku) Decorated with Eight-Pointed Stars, South Coast, Peru, Late Horizon, 1450-1550 CE

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Start price: $160

Estimated price: $400 - $600

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Local Style

Multicolored camelid fiber in plain weave face with discontinuous warps and complementary warp patterning with floating warps.

60 x 194 cm 

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 265, p. 317 ( 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. 317

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