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A Stirrup Spout Effigy Bottle: A Condor, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE
A Stirrup Spout Effigy Bottle: A Condor, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE
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A Stirrup Spout Effigy Bottle: A Condor, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE

Representation of a condor, the biggest flying bird of the region, considered the lord of the air and one of the major spirits of the upper world. As carrion eaters, condors maybe associated with a complex set of ideas such as predation death, resurrection and sacrifice.

Height: 20.1 cm

For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 50, p. 83 ( 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. 83


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A Stirrup Spout Effigy Bottle: A Condor, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE

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