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 a Sitting Fox, Cupisnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE

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Start price: $300

Estimated price: $500 - $1,000

Buyer's premium: 22%

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The vessel depicts a fox, a prominent figure in Pre-Columbian mythology indicating wisdom, intelligence and cunningness.

Height: 23.6 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 6, p. 33 ( 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. 33

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