- SOUTHERN CARVED STONE FOLK ART FEMALE
BUST19th century carved stone folk art bust painted to depict an African American female with bright red lips and natural hairstyle. Dated "1849" within dotted rectangular...
[more like this] - RARE / LARGE PRE-COLUMBIAN PUKARA STONE
JANIFORM HEAD**Originally Listed At $3000**
Pre-Columbian, southern Peruvian Highlands, northern basin of Lake Titicaca, Pucara (also Pukara) culture, 250 BCE to 700 CE....
[more like this] - NECKLACE W/ OLMEC JADE BEADS, DUCK HEAD
PENDANTPre-Columbian, southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec culture, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A stunning necklace comprised of nearly 100 ancient beads carved from omphacite jade,...
[more like this] - FABULOUS OLMEC / PROTO MAYA JADE BEAD
NECKLACEPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec to Proto-Maya culture, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A stunning ensemble of 52 sizeable, hand-carved jade beads, all strung...
[more like this] - TALL GUERRERO MEZCALA STONE TYPE M-14
FIGUREPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala culture, ca. 300 to 100 BCE. This is an incredible, abstract standing anthropomorphic figure of a large size,...
[more like this] - BEAUTIFUL BACTRIAN QUARTZ BEAD NECKLACECentral
Asia, Bactria, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. This is a stunning and wearable collection of 19 rock crystals or quartz beads, hand-cut and drilled in ancient times, gathered here and...
[more like this] - BEAUTIFUL MAYA JADE AVIAN PLAQUE PENDANTPre-Columbian,
Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya Territories, Maya, late Preclassic period, 100 BCE to 400 CE. This is a stunning hand-carved rectangular jade stone plaque or pectoral piece,...
[more like this] - GUERRERO MEZCALA GREENSTONE TYPE M-22
AXE GOD FIGUREPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala culture, ca. 400 to 100 BCE. A large and pretty example of a hand-carved greenstone axe god of the Type...
[more like this] - OLMEC / MEZCALA JADE MASKETTE + 2 CLAW
AMULETS**Originally Listed At $400**
Pre-Colombian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec / Mezcala culture, ca. 1200 to 600 BCE. A fine collection of 3 stone pendants skillfully...
[more like this] - 19TH C. CHINESE STONE CHOP STAMP W/
HORSE + INK PAD**Originally Listed At $350**
East Asia, China, Qing Dynasty, ca. 19th century CE.A stunning carved-shoushan stone chop stamp and ink pad, highly burnished...
[more like this] - CHAVIN POTTERY INCISED JAGUAR VESSEL,
TL TESTEDPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, Santana-Santa River, ca. 700 to 200 BCE. A delightful ceramic vessel in the form of a stylized jaguar presenting a portly...
[more like this] - NATIVE AMERICAN MIDDLE WOODLAND STONE
EFFIGY PIPENative America, Midwestern / Southern USA, Middle Woodland period, ca. 200 to 1000 CE. A fascinating pipe, hand-carved from greenish-gray stone to display a tubular...
[more like this] - NATIVE AMERICAN MISSISSIPPIAN STONE
MEDICINE TUBENative American, Southern and Midwestern United States, Mississippian Culture, ca. 1000 to 1600 CE. A rare Native American artifact, a medicine tube or cloud...
[more like this] - RARE & STUNNING OLMEC JADEITE CEREMONIAL
PECTORALPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 1500 to 550 BCE. This astounding and rare jadeite pectoral or funerary mask has been skillfully pecked into...
[more like this] - RARE MEZCALA STONE TEMPLE W/ RECUMBENT
HUMAN FIGUREPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala culture, ca. 200 BCE to 500 CE. A very rare stone carving that combines a traditional Guerrero stone temple...
[more like this] - AZTEC MASK MOON GODDESS COYOLXAUHQUI
W/ MONTEZUMA GLYPH...Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Aztec Empire, ca. 16th century CE. Wow! An extraordinarily rare greenstone mask of the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauhqui with an...
[more like this] - RARE NATURALISTIC OLMEC CARVED GREENSTONE
EAR EFFIGIESPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A striking pair of naturalistically rendered ear effigies carved from a greenstone with...
[more like this] - RARE / GORGEOUS OLMEC BLUE JADE CELTPre-Columbian,
Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec culture, ca. 1150 to 550 BCE. A rare, hand-carved ceremonial jade celt (hand axe) with a muted blue-green coloration and an elegant presentation....
[more like this] - MAYA GREENSTONE PENDANT MASKETTE STYLIZED
FACEPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A hand-carved greenstone pendant of a stylized anthropomorphic face maskette....
[more like this] - MASSIVE MAYA BASALT BOUNDARY MARKER
BOUND PRISONERPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Classic to Postclassic period, 500 to 1300 CE. A monumental volcanic stone carving of a prisoner crouching...
[more like this] - MAYA GREENSTONE PECTORAL BEADS + EAR
SPOOL, EX-SCHMITT**Originally Listed At $6000**
Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A staggering collection of 39 sizable...
[more like this] - GUERRERO MEZCALA GREENSTONE BEAD NECKLACE**First
Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Mezcala culture, ca. 600 to 100 BCE; Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, late Pre-Classic to Late Classic...
[more like this] - SUPERB CHONTAL STONE FACE MASK**First
Time At Auction**
Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Guerrero region, Chontal culture, Late Preclassic Period, ca. 300 to 100 BCE. A handsome mask carved from tan-brown stone...
[more like this] - OLMEC STONE PENDANT - WERE-JAGUAR, EX-SCHMITT**Originally
Listed At $2000**
Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A remarkable andesite stone pendant or applique low relief carved into a figure...
[more like this] - TALL OLMEC SERPENTINE STANDING MALE
FIGUREPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A finely carved and string cut serpentine figure standing with both arms held to the sides and...
[more like this] - EGYPTIAN STONE FIGURE - WINGED ISIS
PROTECTING OSIRIS**Originally Listed At $2500**
Ancient Egypt, Late Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 590 to 530 BCE. An impressive siltstone statue of Osiris, the god of fertility,...
[more like this] - NEAR-MINIATURE OLMEC STANDING FIGUREPre-Columbian,
Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. An exquisite, finely carved, near-miniature, blue-green mottled stone figure, standing in a characteristically stiff...
[more like this] - OLMEC GREENSTONE BLOODLETTER - HUMMINGBIRDPre-Columbian,
Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A charming bloodletting tool called a piercer in the shape of a hummingbird, all hand-carved from mottled blue-green...
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