- CHAVIN CUPISNIQUE POTTERY SACRIFICIAL
LEG VESSEL**Originally Listed At $1600**
Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, Quebrada Cupisnique, ca. 1200 BCE. A fascinating mold-made terracotta stirrup vessel with...
[more like this] - EARLY 20TH C. KWAKWAKA'WAKW WOOD FEAST
BOWL WHALESNative American, Pacific Northwest, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) people, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden feast bowl of an enormous size with an ovoid...
[more like this] - RARE ZAPOTEC MONTE ALBAN POTTERY FIGURE
OF CAMAZOTZPre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec culture, Monte Alban, Phase III, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A hand-built pottery figure of intriguing form depicting the Zapotec...
[more like this] - ENORMOUS 20TH C. SHIPIBO POLYCHROME
PORTRAIT JARSouth American, Upper / Western Amazon Basin, Ucayali River, Peru, Shipibo people, ca. mid-20th century CE. Wow! A marvelous pottery portrait jar of a tremendous...
[more like this] - ZAPOTEC POTTERY INCENSARIO OF CAMAZOTZ
- THE BAT GODPre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec culture, Monte Alban, Phase III, ca. 500 to 700 CE. An intriguing, hand-built pottery incensario vessel in the form of...
[more like this] - CHAVIN TEMBLADERA TRI-COLORED STIRRUP
SHAMAN IN TRANCEPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, from Tembladera in the Jequetepeque Valley, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. A rare tri-colored stirrup vessel depicting a shaman engaged...
[more like this] - PRE-COLUMBIAN CHIMU GOLD RITUAL KERO
(DRINKING VESSEL)Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Chimu, Late Intermediate Period, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. An elegant ritual kero (drinking cup) formed from a single sheet...
[more like this] - CHINESE SHANG DYNASTY BRONZE GU / WINE
VESSEL**First Time At Auction**
East Asia, China, Late Shang Dynasty, ca. 12th to 11th century BCE. A gorgeously preserved ritual wine vessel, known as a "gu", from the Chinese...
[more like this] - MAYA TRIPOD BOWL W/ DIGNITARY, GLYPHS,
KILL HOLE**Originally Listed At $2000**
Pre-Columbian, Highlands (Chiapas, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), Maya Late Classic Period, ca. 500 to 800 CE. A fabulous...
[more like this] - CHAVIN STONE JAGUAR MORTAR FOR CEREMONIAL
HALLUCINOGENS...**Originally Listed At $1800**
Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin / Cupisnique, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A fantastical stone metate or mortar stone, carved...
[more like this] - RARE CHINESE HAN DYNASTY BRONZE HU VESSEL
W/ LID!**Originally Listed At $2500**
East Asia, China, Han Dynasty, 206 BCE to 220 CE. An elegant, pear shaped hu vessel, the iconographic program of this piece comes to...
[more like this] - RIO MAGDALENA MOSKITO POTTERY URN W/
LID, TL TESTEDPre-Columbian, Northern Colombia, Rio Magdalena, Moskito, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A This is an incredible funerary effigy vessel with a figural lid, and a conical...
[more like this] - ACHAEMENID SILVER PHIALE / LIBATION
BOWL (FOR WINE)Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 500 to 330 BCE. A gorgeous libation bowl used for holding wine known as a phiale that exhibits a slightly...
[more like this] - IBO PEOPLES, RARE LARGE BRONZE OFO RITUAL
OBJECT Nigeria, bronze shrine vessel on four legs, cast with raised rope and spiral decoration, 10"l...
[more like this] - AFRICAN PEOPLES, (2) RITUAL VESSELS
Including an Igbo, Nigerian terracotta human female-form container, 14"h, together with a Mambeila, Cameroon terracotta container depicting a monkey, 14"h...
[more like this] - IBO PEOPLES, (5) RARE BRONZE OFO RITUAL
OBJECTS Nigeria, bronze shrine vessels on three legs, cast with raised rope and spiral decoration, 7"l (largest)...
[more like this] - LOBI PEOPLES, SHRINE VESSEL AND LID
20th c., Burkina Faso, fired clay, rare example with human head, carefully applied pinched clay motif, original lid with lizard decoration, burnished interior with remnants...
[more like this] - CHINESE PATINATED BRONZE DRAGONS RITUAL
VESSELChinese patinated bronze ritual vessel (fang ding), body cast with dragons and flaming pearls in relief, against a leiwen patterned ground, upright bracket handles,...
[more like this] - CHINESE PATINATED BRONZE RITUAL DING
VESSELChinese patinated bronze ritual food vessel (ding), pierced wooden lid, globular body, with leiwen patterned band, upright handles, rising on tripod legs, approx 5.5"h,...
[more like this] - CHINESE ARCHAIC STYLE BRONZE RITUAL
GUI VESSELChinese Archaic style patinated bronze ritual food vessel (gui), wooden lid with carved hardstone fish finial, compressed globular body cast in low relief with Taotie...
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