Description:

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. Two rectangular painted cloth panels from the same textile in hues of brown, tan and cream. Each features a warrior/deity/ruler head donning a grand crescent-shaped headdress and dramatic, stylized puma profile ear ornaments attached to a serpentine body that spirals around the head and resolves in another visage at the tail end. The body is bordered with a diamond pattern and further adorned with repeated representations of Andean crosses. This rich iconography suggests that we are witnessing a regal body in a transformative state. One of the panels also includes a lizard-like creature in the composition. Bordering the central figures is an interlocking temple stair/step motif. Both panels are framed with a custom, museum-quality frame with diamond motif that complements the central curling, feathered serpent body’s diamond pattern. Size: textiles alone measure 17” x 21” (43 cm x 53.3 cm) and 19” x 24” (48.3 cm x 61 cm), 23” x 27” (58.4 cm x 68.6 cm) and 25” x 30” (63.5 cm x 76 cm) with frame.

Provenance: Ex-Jean Eugene Lions collection, Geneva, Collection #1801

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  • Condition: Professionally stretched, mounted, conserved and framed. Both examples show some fabric loss due to corrosion of dye material on cotton, now stable.

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