A PERUVIAN CHECKERBOARD ‘MANTLE CORNER’; PERU, C.1000-1500 AD
ANCIENT PERUVIAN "MANTLE CORNERS", REFER TO THE HIGHLY DECORATIVE, OFTEN EMBROIDERED, BORDER OR EDGE DETAIL ON LARGE, RECTANGULAR, SHOULDER-DRAPED GARMENTS USED PRIMARILY IN FUNERAL RITES. THESE TEXTILES, OFTEN FOUND IN THE PARACAS PENINSULA, ARE RENOWNED FOR THEIR EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATION, VIBRANT NATURAL DYES, AND SYMBOLIC NEEDLEWORK. THE RARITY OF THIS BEING MORE RESTRAINED AND GRAPHIC IN THE CHECKERBOARD FORM, MAKES IT HIGHLY APPEALING. MOUNTED ON A STRETCHER, SURROUNDED BY AN ACRYLIC FRAME, INSPIRED BY THE DISPLAYS OF COPTIC TEXTILES AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NYC.
H 56CM, 22” X W 64CM, 25 1/4”
A PERUVIAN CHECKERBOARD ‘MANTLE CORNER’; PERU, C.1000-1500 AD
ANCIENT PERUVIAN "MANTLE CORNERS", REFER TO THE HIGHLY DECORATIVE, OFTEN EMBROIDERED, BORDER OR EDGE DETAIL ON LARGE, RECTANGULAR, SHOULDER-DRAPED GARMENTS USED PRIMARILY IN FUNERAL RITES. THESE TEXTILES, OFTEN FOUND IN THE PARACAS PENINSULA, ARE RENOWNED FOR THEIR EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATION, VIBRANT NATURAL DYES, AND SYMBOLIC NEEDLEWORK. THE RARITY OF THIS BEING MORE RESTRAINED AND GRAPHIC IN THE CHECKERBOARD FORM, MAKES IT HIGHLY APPEALING. MOUNTED ON A STRETCHER, SURROUNDED BY AN ACRYLIC FRAME, INSPIRED BY THE DISPLAYS OF COPTIC TEXTILES AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NYC.
H 56CM, 22” X W 64CM, 25 1/4”
