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 Stirrup-Spout Bottle with Incised Decoration, Cupisnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE

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Start price: $750

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

Buyer's premium: 22%

Sales Tax: On buyer's premium only

The body of the vessel is decorated with two versions of highly stylized representations of bleeding, anthropomorphic heads in profile, separated by vegetable depictions.

Height: 25.8 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 5, p. 32 ( 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. 32

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