- A PRE-COLUMBIAN MOCHE POLYCHROME FACE
FORM POT A Pre-Columbian Moche polychrome face form pot with two handles 7"h. Provenance: David Cole was an influential dealer of California avant garde art during the 1950s...
[more like this] - A RENé D'HARNONCOURT "MEXICAN MASTERS"
FRAMED NEEDLEPOINT TAPESTRYA René d'Harnoncourt "Mexican Masters" framed needlepoint tapestry, Mid-20th century, Mexico A large pictorial needlework panel designed by René...
[more like this] - AFRICAN TEKE POLYCHROME MASK, DEM. REP.
OF CONGO Teke people, polychrome wood mask, likely Democratic Republic of the Congo, 20th century, with low relief markings. 11.5" diameter....
[more like this] - WARRIOR SHIELD, ASMAT PEOPLE, NEW GUINEALarge
carved wood war shield, Asmat People, New Guinea, 20th c., carved geometric designs with faded peeling polychrome paint, a wood handle at back side, 68.25"h, 23.75"w...
[more like this] - A JAPANESE RINPA SCHOOL POLYCHROME PAINTED
AND GOLD LEA... AND GOLD LEAF SIX PANEL SCREEN, 19TH CENTURY, beautifully rendered in colorful pigments and portraying various species of blossoming wild flower foliage amidst...
[more like this] - CIRCA 1860-1889 CHINESE ROSE MEDALLION
PLATESFeatured in this lot are Eleven (11) Vintage Chinese Rose Medallion Plates, circa 1860-1889. Provenance: Private collector, Big Sky, Montana. Ten (10) plates are hexagonal,...
[more like this] - LARGE NIGERIAN POLYCHROME YORUBA GELEDE
MASKOffered in this lot is a Large Nigerian Polychrome Yoruba Gelede Mask, circa Early - Mid 20th Century. The western Yoruba people practice the Efe/Gelede cult to celebrate...
[more like this] - LEWIS & CLARK HORSE DREAMER PARFLECHE
ENVELOPEThis is a unique work of art from a Plains Native American Indian from the late-20th Century featuring a "Horse Dreamer Buffalo Parfleche Envelope" which tells the...
[more like this] - NAYARIT IXTLAN DEL RIO POLYCHROME SEATED
FEMALE FIGUREPre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, Ixtlan del Rio type, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A remarkable, hand-built pottery female depicted sitting cross-legged as she...
[more like this] - MIXTEC POLYCHROME TRIPOD RATTLE JAR
W/ GEOMETRIC MOTIFS...Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Mixtec people, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery jar of an attractive form with a series...
[more like this] - 20TH C. MALI POLYCHROME WOOD PUPPET
MAMI WATA**Originally Listed At $500**
West Africa, Mali, Bozo peoples, ca. 20th century CE. An impressive Bozo puppet depicting Mami Wata, the water deity and ultimate Mother...
[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] - SIGNED SUSAN KLIEWER BRONZE - "NAMPEYO"
(2012)Susan Kliewer (American, b. 1940). "Nampeyo" bronze, 2012. Edition 31 of 45. Signed, dated, and numbered on integral bronze base. A magnificent limited edition cast...
[more like this] - NAYARIT POLYCHROME SEATED FIGURES MALE
+ FEMALEPre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, Ixtlan del Rio type, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fabulous pair of pottery figures, a male musician and a female - perhaps a shaman...
[more like this] - KURUMBA ANTELOPE HEADDRESS (ADONE)KURUMBA
ANTELOPE HEADDRESS (ADONE)
African (Burkina Faso, formally Upper-Volta), 20th century, Kurumba People, polychrome wood. The head and neck of the creature, stippled and patterned.
Headdress:...
[more like this] - (2) AFRICAN CARVED WOOD MALE FIGURES,
HEMBA(lot of 2) African carved wood figures: (1) with cloth waist drape, possibly Hemba people, Democratic Republic of the Congo, approx 23"h, 6"w; (1) polychrome decorated,...
[more like this] - MOSSI CARVED WOOD ANTELOPE & FERTILITY
DANCE MASKCarved African wood dance mask, Mossi People of Burkina Faso, elongated mask with carved polychrome geometric pattern, fertility figure over antelope horn mask,...
[more like this] - ACOMA PUEBLO POLYCHROME POTTERY OLLA
JARNative American polychrome pottery olla jar, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, white ground, geometric designs executed in orange and black pigments, restoration, approx 9"h, 10.5"diam,...
[more like this] - 3) WEST AFRICAN GHANA ASHANTI PEOPLES
BEADED MASKS(lot of 3) Decorative West African masks, Ashanti (Asante) peoples, Ghana, disc-shape facial plane, with inset brass and copper elements, polychrome beads, largest:...
[more like this] - MARY HOLIDAY BLACK (B.1934, DINé)Mary
Holiday Black (b.1934, Diné), A polychrome Navajo basketry eagle tray A polychrome coiled tray basket with central eagle motif in purple and cream with blue edges 2" H...
[more like this] - J. D. CHALLENGER (AMERICAN B. 1951),
WE THE PEOPLE, POLYCHROME PAINTED BRONZE SCULPTURE ON BLACK MARBLE BASE, HEIGHT: 25 INJ. D. Challenger (American b. 1951), We the People, Polychrome painted bronze sculpture...
[more like this] - SONGYE PEOPLES, POLYCHROME 'KIFWEBE'
MASK 20th c., Democratic Republic of the Congo, carved wood with polychrome pigments, with overall striated decoration, on custom black metal stand, 19"h x 6"w x 10"d (mask),...
[more like this] - SONGYE PEOPLE, 'KIFWEBE' MASK 20th c.,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, carved wood with polychrome pigments, with overall striated decoration, 20"h x 8"w x 7"d...
[more like this] - KLAMATH PEOPLES TWINED POLYCHROME BASKET
Klamath peoples twined polychrome basket, circa 1880, likely twined with hazel, cottontail, rush, colored grasses, and poisonwood oak, of tapering form with eight to nine...
[more like this] - KURUMBA PEOPLES, BURKINA FASO ANTELOPE
MASK Kurumba peoples, Burkina Faso polychrome painted and carved wood antelope mask or "adone", decorated in blue, red, black, and white with diamonds, dots and stripes, resting...
[more like this] - NICHOLAS II ENAMELED CORONATION BEAKER,
1896 Russian gilt polychrome enameled copper beaker issued for the May 14, 1896 coronation of Nicholas II and his consort Alexandra Feodorovna of Hesse and by Rhine, having...
[more like this] - SIX HAND WOVEN NATIVE AMERICAN BASKETS
Six hand woven mostly Native Alaskan baskets, comprising an Inuit soapstone and reed lidded basket, having a carved soapstone bust surmounting the coiled lid of a cylinder...
[more like this] - JIM HAVNER (ROBBINS, NC), TWO MUD CRITTER
COMPOSITIONS Polychrome decorated earthenware, two 'wee people' are carving a pumpkin and two other 'wee people' are moving an ear of corn, both signed and dated on the platform...
[more like this] - JOHN JURGENS SURREAL POLYCHROME COUPLE
DRAWING United States,20th CenturySurrealist depiction of two people in profile, comprised of polychrome colors, the feminine figure appears with a corseted neck piece while...
[more like this] - A Pair of Chinese Cloisonne Enamel Gilt
Brass Lidded Vases Second Half 20th Century Of bulbous shape with flared neck and lid with Foo Dog finial. Polychrome cloisonne with floral design and Ruyie border around...
[more like this] - Two Japanese satsuma vases, both polychrome
and gilt, cobalt grounds with gilt flowers: one handled pear form, shaped cartouches of people visiting on a verandah, mounted general with retainers on a road, base with...
[more like this] - Native American Indian Head Tobacco
Jar Ceramic head with polychrome pigments in matte and gloss finish impressed 3942/62. Tobacco jar images of American Native peoples may be after Karl Bodmer (1809-1893) a...
[more like this] - ORIENTAL COVERED VASE. White enameled
vase with polychrome decoration depicting people birds crawdads butterflies and flowers. 7 1/4'' h. There are two cracks in the bottom interior one of which goes...
[more like this] - TEN IVORY CARVINGS. Japan 1st half-20th
century. Mostly netsukes some with inked and polychrome details. Figures include Chinese emperor and empress on thrones man on tiger people around a cauldron and tradesmen....
[more like this] - TWO CARVINGS. Angola 1880-1907 wood
polychrome and glass beads. Seated woman with elaborate coiffure flattened face and scarification wearing a double strand of beads identifying her as someone of high status....
[more like this] - Diminutive Chinese cabinet, two door
top on newer base with two drawers, black lacquer with polychrome decoration of buildings and people, 19th century, 20-1/2 x 19 x 11-1/2 in. Chips, separations, wear to lacquer,...
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