- CANTON THREE-PIECE FRUIT COOLER, CIRCA
1800-1820Canton Three-Piece Fruit Cooler, circa 1800-1820, domed cover with foo lion knop on footed bowl with liner; decorated with continuous river landscapes, rain landscapes,...
[more like this] - IMPOSING MAYA BASALT RELIEF CARVING
OF TLALOCPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Cotzumalguapa region, Maya culture, Late Classic Period, ca. 650 to 900 CE. A stunning and large basalt stone fragment,...
[more like this] - TEOTIHUACAN POTTERY INCENSARIO OF RAIN
GOD TLALOC, TL'D...Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 150 to 650 CE. A marvelous and massive theatre-type incensario featuring an ornately decorated lid with...
[more like this] - 20TH C. NATIVE AMERICAN HOPI WOOD KACHINA
BY A. HONANIE...Native American, Arizona, Hopi culture, Moenkopi, ca. late 20th century CE. A wonderful, signed wooden kachina doll by the talented Hopi carver and silversmith...
[more like this] - ZAPOTEC POTTERY SEATED GOD COCIJO VESSEL,
TL TESTEDPre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec culture, Monte Alban III, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A magnificent ceramic vessel in the form of a seated god, Cocijo or Cociyo, the...
[more like this] - BWA OWL ''BUTTERFLY'' MASK BURKO FASO:
This large horizontal winged wooden mask used to invoke ancestors to protect and provide - mainly rain. This mask represents the hawk and dancers wearing the mask would imitate...
[more like this] - TWO PIECES OF FEININGER FAMILY EPHEMERATwo
Pieces of Feininger Family Ephemera, comprising: - A collage depicting a masked figure and a seated lady, signed Julie Feininger, l.l.; with pencil drawing, of a man at...
[more like this] - AFRICAN MASK Fang Rain Dance Mask, in
kaolin finish, Cameroon, 14 1/2" tall....
[more like this] - TAINO STONE COHOBA INHALER USED TO INGEST
THEHALLUCINOGEN COHOBA. FROG LIKE FIGURE WITH MASK OR FACE ON VERSO. FROGS WERE SYMBOLS OF FERTILITY, ABUNDANCE AND RAIN. 5" LONG. 1,000 - 1,500 A.D....
[more like this] - WAMBELE MASK FROM THE SENUFO TRIBE IVORY
COAST: Powerful mask painted in white, dances only at night and is supposed to cause thunderstorms, lightning and rain. Women and children are not allowed to see it and have...
[more like this] - Two Japanese swords, letter opener,
one wakizashi signed Uda Kunimune on tang, blade 19 in., in scabbard 27 in., lacquered wood scabbard, cord-wrapped rayskin tsuka (handle), gold scratch pattern habaki , archaic...
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