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Textile

MOA: University of British Columbia

3256/6

Open-work, rectangular textile. Fine white thread has been twisted to create a mesh grid, with patterning appllied by in-filling squares of the mesh across large areas. Patterns include lines, zigzags, collections of squares, and key patterns. What remains of the edges has been finished.

  • Narrative

    Rosita Tovell's father was a collector of Peruvian pre-Columbian ceramics. Rosita moved to Peru in the early 1960s, while her husband served as ambassador to Peru and Bolivia. During this time Rosita began to study and collect pre-Columbian Peruvian ceramics and textiles.

  • Type of Item textile
  • Culture Chancay
  • Material wool fibre
  • Measurements height 66.0 cm, width 54.0 cm (overall)
  • Previous Owner Rosita LeSueur Tovell, Susan Moogk
  • Received from Susan Moogk
  • Made in Chancay
  • Creation Date between 1000 and 1476
  • Collection Date during 1965
  • Ownership Date before July 25, 2017
  • Acquisition Date on July 25, 2017
  • Item Classes textiles
  • Condition fair
  • Accession Number 3256/0006

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