A Stirrup-Spout Bottle with Incised Decoration, Cupisnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE
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Description
The body of the vessel is decorated with two versions of highly stylized representations of bleeding, anthropomorphic heads in profile, separated by vegetable depictions.
Height: 25.8 cm
For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 5, p. 32 ( 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. 32
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