A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: A Deity Playing Panpipe, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE
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The body of the vessel is modeled in the shape of a platform on which the reclining divinity is propped up on his elbows and playing a panpipe. The personage has a wrinkled face and fanged mouth. He is accompanied by a small dog and covered with a blanket decorated with painted motifs of stylized fish and double spirals.
Height: 19.7 cm
For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 68 p. 97 ( 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. 97
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