{"product_id":"paracas-textile-vignette-oculate-being","title":"Paracas Textile Vignette Oculate Being","description":"Peru, South Coast · Early Intermediate Period, ca. 100 BCE–200 CE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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","brand":"Art for Eternity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67663241838906,"sku":"13664","price":595.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0775\/5120\/6714\/files\/13664a.jpg?v=1791574448","url":"https:\/\/howardnowes.com\/products\/paracas-textile-vignette-oculate-being","provider":"Art for Eternity","version":"1.0","type":"link"}