Paracas Textile Vignette Oculate Being
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See available Tlatilco and Early Formative pieces →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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