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 Stepped Triangular Loincloth with Deer Figures, North Coast, Peru, Late Horizon, 1350-1530 CE

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Start price: $240

Estimated price: $500 - $700

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Chimu, Toothed-Crescent Headdress Style

Cotton and multicolored camelid fiber in slit tapestry (long slits sewed), the side appendages plain weave with weft-faced stripes and supplementary wefts (brocade) and embroidery (tassels).

50 x 110 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 114, p. 161 ( 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. 161

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