Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being
Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being

Paracas Necropolis Embroidered Gauze Panel with Oculate Being

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Peru, South Coast · Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 BCE–200 CE

A rare and finely preserved fragment of Paracas Necropolis textile art, worked on an open cotton gauze ground in polychrome camelid-fiber stem stitch. The composition centers on a large mythological zoomorph  an S-curved Oculate Being with prominent concentric eyes, a feline mouth, and serpent-headed appendages emanating from head and tail  flanked by smaller subsidiary creatures rendered in the same rich palette of oxidized red, deep brown, and golden yellow.

The embroidery technique, with figures reserved against the airy net-like gauze rather than worked on a solid ground cloth, places this panel firmly within the celebrated Necropolis textile tradition unearthed on the Paracas Peninsula.

Size: 6¼ × 2 in. (15.9 × 5.1 cm) Custom mounted in a sealed plexiglass case for stability and display which adds additional to the diminsions (approx 9.5 x 5 in)

Museum Comparanda: British Museum, London — Paracas embroidered fragment with S-shaped zoomorphic Oculate Being and smaller attendant figures (Am1954,05.653); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — Paracas border fragment (1994.35.120); Cleveland Museum of Art — Fragment of Embroidered Cloth (1940.528)

Provenance:  Ex. Art Weave, New York City

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