- COSTA RICAN OMPHACITE JADE AXE GOD -
BIRD FORMPre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste/Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. Finely carved from a verdant omphacite jade with elegant black inclusions, an avian axe god,...
[more like this] - COSTA RICAN GUANACASTE NICOYA BROWNWARE
FOOTED OLLAPre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. A beautiful, hand-built bichrome pottery olla, its form with a dramatically corseted...
[more like this] - 2 JALISCO, 1 MICHOACAN, AND 1 NICOYA
POTTERY FIGURESPre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan culture, ca. 500 to 100 BCE; Jalisco, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Central America, Costa Rica, Nicoya region, ca. 600 to 1000...
[more like this] - COSTA RICAN NICOYA STONE MACE EFFIGY
CROCODILE HEADPre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, ca. 100 to 500 CE. An incredible stone mace, pecked and polished into a crocodilian or reptilian head,...
[more like this] - NICOYA POLYCHROME JAGUAR EFFIGY RATTLE
VESSEL**First Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Greater Nicoya, Period VI, ca. 1000 to 1350 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel depicting a highly stylized jaguar...
[more like this] - PRE-COLUMBIAN COSTA RICAN STONE REPTILIAN
MACE HEADPre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed region, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. A sizable and hefty mace head, hand-carved from a calcite...
[more like this] - NICOYA POLYCHROME POTTERY CYLINDER VESSELPre-Columbian,
Central America, Costa Rica, Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A beautiful, hand-built pottery cylinder vessel, showing strong Mayan influence. The surface...
[more like this] - COSTA RICAN NICOYA POTTERY DOUBLE HEADED
BIRD OCARINA**First Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya / Guanacaste, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A fantastical ocarina in the form of a double headed bird- the brownware...
[more like this] - NICOYA POLYCHROME TROPHY HEAD VESSEL**First
Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, Atlantic Watershed, Costa Rica, Nicoya or Guanacaste region, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A wonderful pottery vessel in the form of a trophy head decorated...
[more like this] - COSTA RICAN NICOYA VESSEL ZOOMORPHIC
FORMPre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. An adorable pottery vessel in the form of a seated zoomorph adorned with black-on-red painted...
[more like this] - COSTA RICAN NICOYA GREENSTONE FIGURAL
AXE GOD CELTPre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rican, Nicoya region, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 300 to 500 CE. An intriguing and abstract anthropomorphic figure known as an...
[more like this] - COSTA RICAN NICOYA POLYCHROME CYLINDERPre-Columbian,
Central America, Costa Rica, Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, ca. 300 to 500 CE. An attractive pottery vessel presenting a minimalist, cylindrical form with an exterior adorned...
[more like this] - COSTA RICAN CEREMONIAL ZOOMORPHIC MACE
HEADPre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Greater Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, Period IV, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A hand-carved stone mace head of bulbous form with a protruding...
[more like this] - COSTA RICAN BASALT METATE - FELINE FORMPre-Columbian,
Central America, Costa Rica, Greater Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, Period IV, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A hand-carved basalt grinding platform called a metate in the form of an abstract...
[more like this] - Nicoya Culture Seated Female Figure,
Atlantic Watershed Region, Costa Rica, A.D. 800-1200, the seated terra cotta figure having a head wearing perforated circular earplugs and a vertical headdress, the body with...
[more like this] - Nicoya Peninsula Culture Figure, Costa
Rica, ca. A. D. 500-1000, the polychrome terra cotta figure depicting a man seated on a stool, his hands resting on his knees, his torso adorned with a sash, h. 7"....
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