- 103
Paracas painted mummy mask, Late Paracas, ca. 300-100 B.C.
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Cotton
the plain weave cotton ground painted with the standing Oculate deity with wide grinning mouth and arching serpentine streamers from the head and waist, his tunic with a feline face and the field densely filled with lively feline and serpentine images, long fringe extending above in two plaits as hair.
Provenance
Alan Lapiner
Acquired from the above before 1970
Literature
Alan Lapiner, Pre-Columbian Art of South America, New York, 1976, colorplate 172