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Period: 15th Century and Earlier
Mounted Chancay Textile, 1300-1500 AD
Located in Chicago, IL
Immerse yourself in the artistry of the Chancay civilization with this extraordinary 12th-14th century handwoven and knotted textile. Echoing the mastery of a culture known for its i...
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Peruvian Tribal Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Framed Large Nazca Textile Panel with Geometrical Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large woven textile panel from Nazca culture on the south coast of nowadays Peru circa 600 to 800AD. The panel with short fringes on the end used to be half of a sleeveless tunic (similar to poncho) in which two similar pieces were joined together. Professionally mounted and conversed on a linen-backed wood frame and presented in an acrylic shadow box. The textile was finely woven from a camelid fiber dyed with natural pigments. The work strikes the viewer immediately with its unexpected modernity. The tri-colored geometrical blocks created a zigzagged step design that is visually minimal but bold at the same time. Its repetition evokes a lyrical visual rhythm that is unparallel in the ancient textile art and could easily mistake it as an abstract art from the 20th century. The zigzag step design was one of the unusual abstract motifs used by the pre-Columbian weavers from Nazca, who created some of the most mysterious and soul-stirring work with a minimalism aesthetic that was rarely seen in the ancient world. Considering that the artists were completely isolated without the influences of other cultures, their intrinsic creativity and artistic vision are even more impressive.
Reference: James W. Reid, The Lee M...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Acrylic
Framed Large Nazca Wari Textile Panel with Geometrical Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Nazca-Wari woven textile panel known as Llika or Awayo (shawl) from Ica Valley on the south coast of nowadays Peru. Professionally mounted and conversed on a linen-backed wood frame and presented in an acrylic shadow box. Shawls with this step design were identified as made from the period of 700 to 1100 AD during the transitional period when Nazca went under the expanded rule of the Wari empire. The textile was finely woven from a camelid fiber dyed with natural pigments. The work strikes the viewer immediately with its unexpected modernity. The simple, bold and repetitive geometry with the scintillating color blocks created a lyrical visual rhythm and could easily mistake it as an abstract art from the 20th century. The step design was one of the unusual abstract motifs used by the pre-Columbian weavers from Nazca, who created some of the most mysterious and soul-stirring work with a minimalism aesthetic that was rarely seen in any other ancient textile art. Considering that the artists were completely isolated without the influences of other cultures, their intrinsic creativity and artistic vision are even more impressive.
Provenance: From the collection of Lee M...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile
15th Century Antique Brussels Millefleur Tapestry 6' X 5'
Located in Los Angeles, US
A wall hanging tapestry, simply put, is a textile specifically designed and woven to portray an artistic scene with the intent of hanging it on a wall. Antique tapestries, those that...
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Unknown Other Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Framed Pre-Columbian Woven Textile from Chancay Culture
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique pre-Columbia textile panel from Chancay culture in Central coast of nowadays Peru. Chancay culture thrived in the late Intermediate period/ late Horizon circa AD. 1000-1470. The panel appears to be an intact shawl or head scarf, indicated by the overall integrity with the finished edges. It is a gauze-like linen/cotton open-square woven panel with supplemental embroidered horizontal bands that alternate between hooked diamond motifs and silhouettes of perched seabirds, one of the most favored animal forms in Chancay art. The color is quite vibrant with red contrasted by two shades of yellow on a darker brown background. The scarf such as this is thought to be associated with ceremonies and magic realm of death and burial practice. The textile is displayed on a dark line background under a newly made acrylic shadow box.
Reference: For reading on the bird motifs in Chancay textile art, see page 141-183 of the book "Ancient...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Linen
Two Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragment Chancay Culture Peru
Located in Atlanta, GA
Two framed pre-Columbian textile fragments from Chancay culture (1000AD-1470AD) in nowadays Peru. Both panels are of a similar red background and possibly wove...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Wood
Pre-Columbian Chancay Coca Leaf Bag with Shamans and Zoomorphic Figures, Peru
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Brown Chancay coca bag with shamans and zoomorphic figures depicted in the centre on a in various colors on a red background.
This piece is accompanied by ...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Two Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragments Inca Culture Peru
Located in Atlanta, GA
Two pre-Columbian textile fragments presented in wood frames. Handwoven in colored yarn, possibly camelid fibers, these pieces were from Inca period circa 15-16th century. One panel is a classic Inca weave that was likely part of a mantle or cape. It has a multi-panel design with eight-point stars alternating with stylized animal and homomorphic figures, steps-design and abstract scrolling patterns. The second one features a multiple stripe design also with eight-point star and a mysterious figure sandwiched between stripes of geometrical patterns and plain borders. Presenting in a thin gilt wood and a carved dark wood frame...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Wood
Collection of Three Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragment Bird Motifs Chimu Peru
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lovely collection of three framed pre-Columbian textile fragment form Chimu culture (900AD-1470AD) in nowadays Peru circa 13-15th century. The three panels appear to be woven from ...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Wood
Framed Pre-Columbian Proto Nazca Textile Frangment
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Proto-Nazca textile fragment from Southern Peru circa 100BC-200AD. The linked munecas ("dolls" in Spanish) figures were woven with fibers likely from l...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Intricate Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Extremely detailed yellow embroidered Pre-Columbian textile fragment with hints of red from the Chancay culture in Peru. This piece is framed in a black shadowbox.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a Pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts -- so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs.
Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile, Stepped Zig-Zag Design, Nazca Peru 200-400 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Pre-Columbian Nazca textile with stepped zig-zag design in yellow, ochre red, and brown/black shades with yellow fringes.
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Abstract Paracas Precolumbian Textile, Peru, 1100-1400 AD, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Earth tones pre-Columbian textile fragment with abstract embroidered figures. This piece is framed in a black shadowbox.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts -- so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs.
Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile
15th Century Tapestry Recreation, "Taste" From the Lady with the Unicorn Series
Located in Secaucus, NJ
"Taste" From the Lady with the Unicorn Series. The lady and the unicorn series represent the most refined French court taste at the end of the fifteenth century. The series consists ...
Category
Chinese Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Vivid Huari Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Pre-Columbian textile fragment with wave like patterns woven in bright colors. Framed in a black shadow box.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts - so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs.
Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile
15th Century Gothic Tournai Design Medieval Unicorn Hunting Scene Recreation
Located in Secaucus, NJ
The unicorn capture” is recreated after “the hunt of the unicorn” series, found in the collection of François de la Rochefoucald and is currently housed in the cloisters division of ...
Category
Chinese Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Striped Inca Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, circa 1400-1532 AD, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Earth tones adorn this striped pattern pre-Columbian textile.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Ancient Coptic Textile with Classical Figures
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Finely woven of wool and linen, this large, ancient, museum level Coptic textile depicts figures derived from classical antiquity, some playing musical ...
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Egyptian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Linen
Striped Inca Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, circa 1400-1532 AD, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Earth tones adorn this striped pattern pre-Columbian textile. These piece is mounted on a black shadowbox frame.
It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts -- so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs.
Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Abstract Geometric Checkerboard Pre-Columbian Early Nazca Textile - 100-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Bold color and dramatic design make this style a favorite among collectors of modern art. Excellent condition. Several minor holes are effectively backed with a compatible color, and...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Inca Mantle with 16 Figures, Peru, 1476-1534 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Inca Mantle with 16 figures in cubist form with multi-color fringes.
This pieces with a Certificat de Bien Culturel from France.
For the Incas finely worked and highly decorativ...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Warrior Banner, Chimu, Peru, circa 1100-1476 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Pre-Columbian ornamental banner with fringes composed of warriors/divinities holding figures in their hands, surrounded by geometric frets. Two-headed birds in alternating colors decorate the top and bottom of the banner. This one-of-a-kind tapestry has preserved its vibrant original colors and fibres. Professionally cleaned.
Provenance: Private European Collection
Textiles from elite Chimu tombs include elaborate gauzes, embroidery, painted plain weave and tapestry, and three-dimensional fibre sculptures. Among others, shades of yellow and brown, scarlet, white, lavender-blue and olive green were the colors used. Birds and a deity wearing a crescent-like headdress have been the most popular decorative motifs.
Many Chimu textiles...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Two Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragments Nazca Culture
Located in Atlanta, GA
Two small fragments of pre-Columbian textiles in shadow box frames. Both have strong geometrical patterns in the style of Nazca culture, located in the southern coast of nowadays Per...
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South American Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragment from Chancay Culture
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique pre-Columbia textile fragment likely from Peru Chancay culture in Central coast that thrived in the late Intermediate period/ late Horizon, A.D. 1200-1550. Abstract geomet...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile, Acrylic
Pre-Columbian Nazca Stepped Textile Poncho, Nazca Peru, 200-400 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Nazca Tunic/Poncho of stepped design and fringe in yellow ocher, burgundy and brown. Perfect condition, museum quality.
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Multi-Color Chancay Textile, Cubist Animals, Peru 1100-1400 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Magnificent Pre-Columbian multi-color Chancay textile with animal figures in cubist form.
The Chancay are known more for their textiles than for their ceramics. Textiles from elite Chancay tombs include elaborate gauzes, embroidery, painted plain weave and tapestry, and three-dimensional fibre...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Extremely Rare Pre-Columbian Chimu Gauze Poncho Textile, Peru, 1000-1450 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Chimu brown gauze shirt with multiple red and white fringe lines forming V designs like the one around the neck, with very rarely seen sleeves and border fringe in the same material.
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Lambayeque Textile Ceremonial Panel
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Impressive pre-columbian Lambayeque textile ceremonial panel. Lambayeque, Peru. Mint condition. Museum piece. Ex. Sotheby’s, New York.
The Lambayeque civilization (aka Sicán) flou...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Ica Fringed Textile Panel, Ex Kate Kemper, Peru 800 to 1200 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A semi-ovoid rectangular panel with heavily fringed border having a very tightly woven multi-color geometric pattern consisting of two scroll devices containing multiple stylized zoo...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Chancay Painted Textile - Brown Fishes and Dots On Vertical Bands
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Chancay Painted Textile with Brown Fishes and Dots On Vertical Bands. Even though the piece is incomplete, the powerful design resembles an abstract modern painting by Henry Matisse...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Pre-Columbian Chimu Textile, Meander Design and Fringe, Peru circa 900 to 1300AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A woven textile shirt of rectangular form having small rectangular panels on the front and back, all with fringed borders, and open head slit in center. Decorated with zigzag rows of...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Ceremonial Inca Tokapu of Multicolor Geometric Diamond Shapes
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Magnificent Ceremonial Inca Tokapu of Multicolor Geometric Diamond Shapes.
Tokapu were textiles worn by the Inca elite consisting of geometric figures enclosed by rectangles or squa...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Vibrant Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho, Peru 200-600 AD, Ex Guillot-muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Magnificent Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho with a Geometric Step Design in Vibrant Ochre, Red, Green and Brown colors with its Original Fringes. Moun...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Chuquibamba Banner, Peru 1000-1400 AD Ex Guillot-Muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Exceptional Banner of Pageantry with Multicolor Tapisserie Squares with 8 Weave Ornaments in Relief. On the inferior part the ornaments float with the wind. (2 are missing) Very good...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Multi-Color Diamond Shaped Nazca Unku Textile, Peru, 200-400 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Very colorful complete Nazca unku in multi-color camelid wool with lozenge diamond and zig-zag design patterns. The beautiful blue and light pink color makes this textile very unique...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Chimu Multicolor Banner with Geometric Designs
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Beautiful and Impressive Fragment of a Multicolor Banner with Ocher, Red and Purple with Geometric Designs with Birds and Mythic Creatures in Horizontal Bands.
This piece is accomp...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Pre-Columbian Nazca Unku with Stepped Zig-Zag Design, Peru 200-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Nazca unku with white, red, green, black and yellow step zig-zag design with red bottom with fringe and maroon upper part and beige trim around the arm and neck openings
...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Nazca Cross-Patterned Textile, Peru, 300-600 AD, Ex-Sotheby's
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Pre-Columbian Textile panel woven in plain weave with interlocking and alternating squares in bright shades, with elongated stepped diamonds, looped fringe on the short ends...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Pre-Columbian Inca Complete Uncu Textile, Peru 1300-1500 AD, Ex Guillot-Muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Inca Complete Uncu of beautiful geometric composition with serpent form in red, purple and yellow. This beautiful poncho of a geometric composition has only some worn out sections on...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Textile with 12 Animals, Ex-Kate Kemper
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Large, rectangular section of loosely woven cotton in an open, net pattern weave. Bears three complete selvedges and has 12 square sections, each containing a horned animal with curled tail surrounded by a meandering, geometric border. Excellent condition. Backed on black cotton.
Kate Kemper, of London and Switzerland (1908-2004) was an early collector of Andean art, forming an important collection of ceramics and textiles after visiting Peru. Her comprehensive collection was formed in Europe and exhibited in various museums including Ancient Peruvian...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Pre-Columbian Nazca Checkerboard Cushma 200-400 AD Ex Guillot-Muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Impressive Nazca Cushma of checker works design composed of a red and yellow cross over the green background. A true collector's piece.
Provenance: From the Collection of Guill...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Published Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Panel with Zoomorphs, Ex-Kate Kemper
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A white gauze, triangular panel decorated with a wide band composed of four zoomorphs with curled tails. Upper and lower border having a geometric pattern with upper triangular portion with zoomorphs. Overall excellent condition.
Kate Kemper, of London and Switzerland (1908-2004) was an early collector of Andean art, forming an important collection of ceramics and textiles after...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
Pre-Columbian Mantle Kilim Type Tapisserie Multicolor Designs - Nazca 200-600 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Beautiful Pre-columbian Mantle with a Central Kilim Type Tapisserie of Multicolor Designs with Priests Upraising their Arms Toward the Skies. It is surrounded by 2 Long Red Plain Cot...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Nazca Unku with Stepped “V” Design, Peru, 200-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Nazca Unku in vibrant red with blue, green, yellow and white squares forming V design around the brown neck opening. The multicolor squares in stepped design make a diamond ...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Textile
Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Panel with Figures, Ex-Kate Kemper Estate
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A large, rectangular panel composed of a large diamond pattern grid, each grid contains a stylized human figure with arms raised. A few very minor imperfections, overall excellent condition. Backed and stretched on a brown linen, it has been stabilized and sealed in a very thick and rigid plexiglass. Estate of Miss Kate Kemper, London.
Kate Kemper, of London and Switzerland (1908-2004) was an early collector of Andean art, forming an important collection of ceramics and textiles after...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Tapestries
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Cotton
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