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

An Cylindrical Flask with a Relief Depiction of the Moon Animal, Chimu Inca, Peru, 1470-1534 CE

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Start price: $600

Estimated price: $1,000 - $1,500

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Cylindrical, drum-like bottle with a wide, flaring neck and two small bulbs or handles. Both walls of the vessel are identically ornamented with pressed and incised images of the Moon Animal deity on a "goose flesh" background.

Height: 24.5 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 96, p. 126( https://issuu.com/hammersite/docs/offerings_for_the_afterlife?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ)

Provenance: Kemper Collection, Switzerland.

Donated to "The Museum of Islamic Art", Jerusalem, during 1970’s.
Purchased by Yossef Maiman 1991.
Estate of Yossef Maiman.

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.

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