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 Manioc Tuber-Shaped Stirrup-Spout Bottle, Cupisnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE

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Start price: $700

Estimated price: $1,500 - $2,000

Buyer's premium: 22%

Sales Tax: On buyer's premium only

The body of the vessel is in the form of two manioc plants interlocked and covered with incised decoration showing five anthropomorphic heads in profile.

Height: 29 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 4, p. 30 ( 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. 30

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