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THBRare Paracas Textile Borders w/ Hummingbirds (2)
Lot 101
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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2019-12-05 10:00:00
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- Lot Description
Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Cavernas, Paracas culture, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. A fabulous example of two slender textile borders composed of tightly woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers in vibrant hues of crimson, tangerine, emerald-green, fuchsia, cobalt-blue, sage, grey, and black. Both border panels have a red-hued ground atop which registers of abstract hummingbirds are featured. Each petite hummingbird has a triangular tail, feathery wings folded back as if in flight, ovoid heads, and narrow beaks holding either serpentine or phytomorphic forms. Mounted atop a museum-quality display fabric. Size of largest (textile): 27.375" L x 1.125" W (69.5 cm x 2.9 cm); (display fabric): 40.25" L x 15.5" W (102.2 cm x 39.4 cm).
From the Paracas period to the proto-Nazca, artwork was dominated by representations of avian forms - often including hummingbirds. Peru is home to 127 different known species of hummingbirds. What people during this time period thought of the animals is not clear - in Mesoamerica, they were associated with war and seen as ferocious, while in the Amazon they were associated with medicine because of their long, probing beaks being similar to the process by which "spirit darts" were taken from the sick and wounded.
Provenance: ex-private Hans Juergen Westermann collection, Germany, collected in 1950 to the 1960s
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#150522Both items are sections of larger border panels. Each item has light staining and fading to original pigmentation, and minor fraying to some interior and peripheral fibers. Iconography still visible and clear.Condition
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