PREïºCOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz
PREïºCOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz
PREïºCOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz
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NAZCA MANTLE FRAGMENT<br />
SOUTH COAST<br />
Ca. A. D. 300-500<br />
Belonging to a large mantle woven in<br />
camelid wool with rows of abstract and<br />
stylized anthropomorphic faces with<br />
a profusion of heads issuing from the<br />
central face in a repetitive cryptic style in<br />
tomato red, saff ron yellow, green, shades<br />
of blue, brown and white.<br />
87 x 54 cm<br />
Cf. Nazca, pl. 55<br />
The multitude of faces might represent<br />
an extremely abstract version of the major<br />
Nazca deity in his feline incarnation.<br />
€ 1 200 – 1 500<br />
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