Chimu Polychrome Textile Sash - Birds & Octopuses
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Description
Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A beautiful textile sash of a lengthy form comprised of tightly-woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers as well as loosely-woven gauze panels in hues of coffee, wheat, cream, fuchsia, and vermilion. The central panel displays a set of janiform birds with bulbous heads and triangular feathers enclosing a highly-abstract octopus within their mutual wings, the red birds surrounded by a larger white janiform bird with a small pink head in-between the white avian heads. The lateral panels display a similar avian/octopus motif but in a smaller size, and the exterior edges are lined with frilled yellow tabs. Two gauze-like textile panels are situated between the colorful panels. Mounted on a fabric display panel. Size (textile): 47.5" L x 6.25" W (120.6 cm x 15.9 cm); size (display panel): 64.75" L x 21.25" W (164.5 cm x 54 cm).
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, collected from 1950s to 1960s
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#138979
Provenance: private Hawaii, USA collection; ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, collected from 1950s to 1960s
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.
#138979
Condition
Minor loosening to some interior and peripheral threads, with light fading and staining to original coloration, and light creasing. Iconography is still visible and vivid.
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Chimu Polychrome Textile Sash - Birds & Octopuses
Estimate $1,800 - $2,700
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