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Lot 299
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Elément d’un manteau funéraire à beau décor zoomorphe Culture Chancay Côte centrale du Pérou 1200-1400 ap. J.-C.

Estimate
18,000 - 20,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Culture Chancay
  • Elément d’un manteau funéraire à beau décor zoomorphe
  • Coton naturel blanc et teinture brun clair
  • h. 52 cm ; 20 1/2 in et l. 156 cm ; 61 1/2 in

Provenance

Collection Josef Mueller, Soleure, acquis de R. Stolper, 1955
Collection Barbier-Mueller, Genève, Inv. n° 532-74

Exhibited

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, 30 janvier-24 mars 1992, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, 11 avril-15 juin 1992, Barcelone, Fondation la Caixa, 25 novembre 1992-24 janvier 1993, Art millénaire des Amériques: de la découverte à l’admiration, 1492-1992
Lisbonne, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Arte pré-colombiana da colecção Barbier-Mueller, 23 mars-4 juin 1995
Barcelone, Museu Barbier-Mueller d’Art Precolombí, Camino del Inca, el pasado de los Andes, 9 juin 2011-septembre 2012

Literature

Art millénaire des Amériques: de la découverte à l’admiration, 1492-1992, 1992, pl. 115, p. 312
Arte pré-colombiana da colecção Barbier-Mueller, 1995, pl. 114
Ritual Arts of the New World: Pre-Columbian America, 2000, cat. 117, p. 352

Condition

Quelques manques visibles sur les franges, la surface du tissu est tachée par endroits sans altérer la qualité du dessin qui est très moderne Some losses visible to the fringing, the surface of the textile stained in places, which does not alter the quality of the very modern seeming design
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