The Yossef Maiman Collection - Important Pre-Columbian Pottery and Textile Hammeriste and In Cooperation with David Ben Ami Andres Auctions (Antiquities license number 299)

Stirrup-Spout Vessel with Monkey Emerging from a Beaker, Salinar, Peru, 200 BCE-100 CE

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Start price: $800

Estimated price: $2,000 - $3,000

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The beaker containing the monkey might also symbolize a funerary bundle, these images were probably associated with death and travel to the afterworld.

Height: 19.1 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 12, p. 41 ( 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. 41

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