The Yossef Maiman Collection - Important Pre-Columbian Pottery and Textile Hammeriste and In Cooperation with David Ben Ami Andres Auctions (Antiquities license number 299)
Lot 51845:
An effigy jar in the shape of a schematically-rendered ithyphallic man, seated and holding his oversized penis. The male – probably a supernatural personage related to fertility rites – is wearing a simple headdress and has a cord around his neck on which a tumi ceremonial knife is attached.
Height: 18.8 cm
For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 95, p. 126( https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/offerings_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)
Provenance: Kemper Collection, Switzerland.
Literature: Makowski, Krzystof, Rosenzweif, Alfredo, Diaz Jimenes, Maria Jesus, Offerings for the Afterlife – Peruvian Textiles from the Maiman Collection, Kal Press LTD, Israel, 2006., p. 126
Notes: The Kepmer collection was created between 1940’s and 1980’s. Items that were not donated to the "The Museum of Islamic Art" were sold at Christie’s Amsterdam, 11th April, 1995.
Condition: For a detailed condition report, please contact us at [email protected]
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