AFRICAN LUBA WOOD, COPPER, BONE CEREMONIALPIPE African, Luba People of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hand-Carved Wood and Bone Ceremonial Pipe with copper metal mountings, the mouthpiece and bowl carved in the...
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TAINO (C. 1000-1500 CE) BAT-SHAPED COHOBABOWL, 10.5"Taino (c. 1000-1500 CE). A wonderfully conceived masterpiece of Taino art. Simple yet elegant. A bat shaped shallow cohoba bowl. Used to contain the hallucinogen...
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BAULE & DAN MASKS, CHOKWE RITUAL VESSELABaule Ivory Coast Dance Mask, and a Dan Mask with metal framed eyes inset teeth and applied fabric and hair; together with a Chokwe Ritual Tripod Bowl with Mask faces from...
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HUGE 19TH C. FIJIAN WOOD YAQONA BOWL(TANOA)**Originally Listed At $2000**
Polynesia, Fiji, ca. 19th century CE. An enormous wooden kava vessel carved in the form of a sea turtle. The deep circular bowl is supported...
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19TH C. NORTHWEST COAST NOOTKA HEALINGRITUAL BOWL**Originally Listed At $8500**
Native American, Pacific Northwest Coast, Nuu-chah-nulth people (Nootka), ca. 19th century CE. A fascinating wooden bowl, made to...
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EARLY 20TH C. KWAKWAKA'WAKW WOOD FEASTBOWL 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...
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LOVELY GREEK HELLENISTIC BRONZE PHIALEW/ OMPHALOSGreece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A remarkable, cast-bronze phiale, a special libation bowl used for holding wine, with a hollow, rounded,...
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GREEK APULIAN KANTHAROS W/ LADIES OFFASHIONMagna Graecia, southern Italy, Apulia, ca. 340 to 320 BCE. An elegant kantharos (wine cup) boasting a pair of sweeping high handles with support struts, and thumb spurs....
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PREHISTORIC MIMBRES BLACK ON WHITE BOWLW/ KILL HOLENative American, Southwestern United States, New Mexico, Mimbres Valley, Mimbres, ca. 1025 to 1250 CE. A coil-and-scrape pottery bowl featuring beautiful black...
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IMPORTANT MIMBRES POTTERY BOWL W/ WALKINGFISH - TL'DNative American, Southwestern US, Mimbres Valley, New Mexico, ca. 950 to 1150 CE. A smallish, deep bowl of classic form and decoration from an imaginative and unique...
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ANCIENT ACHAEMENID GILDED SILVER PHIALE(FOR WINE)Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 500 to 330 BCE. A thick 94.96% to 95.78% silver basin or phiale, a special libation bowl used for holding wine,...
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EXHIBITED ROMAN GLASS DIPPER CUP W/IRIDESCENCERoman, Imperial period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A dazzling dipper cup or pan known as a trulla, made from translucent blue green glass to present a deep, ribbed...
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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...
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18TH C. BURMESE KAREN LEADED BRONZERAIN DRUM**Originally Listed At $1200**
Southeast Asia, Myanmar and Thailand, Karen people, ca. 18th to 19th century CE. A stunning and quite impressive leaded bronze rain...
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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...
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ACHAEMENID SILVER PHIALE / LIBATIONBOWL (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...
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PRE-COLUMBIAN JAGUAR FOOTED FIGURALBOWL: Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A jaguar metate, expertly carved from one piece of volcanic stone with refined dimensions and intricately...
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(9) ANTIQUE TIBETAN SILVER LIBATIONCUPS AND BOWLS 19th & 20th c., silver or white metal, includes 3 bowls with flared rims and engraved designs, 2.25"h x 3.75"dia (largest), and 6 footed cups or ritual bowls,...
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COLLECTION OF EAST ASIAN ITEMSCollectionof East Asian.
A Nepalese Jhyali, a folk instrument made of 5 different metals. Threaded on a hide rope.
A Tibetan metal prayer bowl.
A bronze shrine ornament.
A Tibetan...
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SMALL TAINO VESSEL. CIRCA 800–1500AD. THE VESSELis made from siliceous sandstone. It has two full figure, anthropic forms and an individual head. It was probably used for ritual consumption of a hallucinogen...
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A TIBETAN KAPALAA TIBETAN KAPALA (Sanskritfor "skull") ritual implement (bowl) with lift top, used in both Hindu Tantra and Buddhist Tantra (Vajrayana), elaborately carved with hand made metal mounts, 7-1/4"H x 8-1/2"L....
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CHINESE ARCHAIC BRONZE LIDDED DUI RITUALCENSER OR BOWL, PERIOD: LATE CHOU DYNASTY (1122-206 B.C.) 7"H X 7"W (W/ STAND)Chinese archaic bronze lidded dui ritual censer or bowl, period: Late Chou dynasty (1122-206...
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CHINESE ARCHAIC STYLE RITUAL DING TRIPODVESSEL Possibly Western Zhou Dynasty (10th c. BCE), patinated metal bowl, the bell-shaped body with studded rim and upright loop handles on round tapering legs, with elaborately...
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(3) NEOLITHIC ASIAN/CHINESE RITUAL POTTERYTALL FOOTED BOWLS Including: Ban Chiang Pedestal Bowl, Thailand, 400 BC - 200 BC, in slip decorated terracotta with three red stripes having black lining at top, the interior...
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AZTEC RITUAL BOWL 2 ¼" x 6 ?" Potterybowl with earthen red glaze and intaglio design around the exterior....
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