"Mochica" Peru Stirrup Spout Bottle 300BC - 300 AD

(buster May collection) Owner of May Company, CALIFORNIA

Pre-Columbian, Mochica, North Coast Peru. ca. 300 CE.  Relief decorated tapered ovoid pottery bottle with a stirrup spout. Decorated in relief on both sides depicting two Ai-Apec warriors in battle,

A Moche Stirrup Spout Vessel Peru, c. 500 - 800 AD Hollow earthenware bottle with elegant stirrup and tapering spout. Deeply carved all over with an interesting repeated zoomorphic

A Moche Supernatural Collage Vessel Peru, c. 300 - 500 AD One of the rare "supernatural collage" scenes on a stirrup-spout vessel. This one a crowd of figures including a large fig

7" Moche Fruit Effigy Bottle. Peru (200BC to 200 AD). Excellent condition. Four lobe design with stirrup spout. Ex-Jeff Sardofsky, Frank Toplak Collections. Pre-Columbian. Puttera COA

A Transitional Salinar-Mochica Portrait Vessel Peru, c. 200 BC-200 AD Smoothly modeled earthenware. A stirrup handle and spout portrait head vessel with a variegated burnished red-brown slip, cream-co

A high-quality South American Peruvian figural hand-modeled ceramic stirrup spout vessel bottle. The vessel is made in the shape of a sitting man, probably a priest wearing a hand-modeled headdress an

A Manioc Tuber-Shaped Stirrup-Spout Bottle, Cupisnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE The body of the vessel is in the form of two manioc plants interlocked and covered with incised decoration showing five anthr

A Plain Stirrup-Spout Bottle, Salinar, Peru, 200 BCE-100 CE Height: 20.3 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 135, p. 154 (

Moche, North Coast Peru. 300 AD. Stirrup Vessel depicting an Owl holding a Serpent, carrying a Musical Blow Conch on its back. 10 1/4" high, 6 3/4" x 5". Top rim glaze losses. Provenance: H.L. Westerm

A Nazca Polychrome Terracotta Bird Stirrup Vessel Peru, Circa 300 A.D. Height 6 1/2 inches. Property from the Private Estate of Jean Claude Ferrand, Paradise Valley, Arizona Provenance: Simpson's Auct

A Pre-Columbian Lambayeque Valley Sican Chimu circa 1250-1450 AD burnished blackware stirrup spout bottle vase or vessel having a Sican frontal figure with bird and a stirrup handle with elongated spo

A Stirrup Spout Bottle: Recumbent Fawn, Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 15.4 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between 20

A Stirrup and Spout Bottle, Lambayeque, Peru, 1000-1200 CE Height: 18 cm Provenance: Kemper Collection, Switzerland. Donated to "The Museum of Islamic Art", Jerusalem, during 1970's.

Pre-Columbian Northern Peru Moche stirrup spout portrait vessel, c. 250 - 500 AD, depicting a lord or priest as a youth with wide eyes and expressive mouth, the figure wears a headdress with zoomorphi

A Stirrup-Spout Bottle with Stylized Representations of Ospreys, Cupinnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE The body is decorated with two representations of he mythical Cupinnique ospreys (fish-eagles) - birds w

A Fineline Painted Stirrup-Spout Bottle: Representation of Two Mythical Dragons, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Two depictions of a hybrid animal with feline-fox head, pelage and clawed paws characteris

A Fineline Painted Stirrup-Spout Bottle Ornamented with Mythological Animals, Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 25.7 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland.

A Stirrup-Spout Bottle: Portrait Vessel, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Height: 21.7 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 164, p. 157 (

A Stirrup Spout Bottle Decorated with a Relief of a Deity Effigy, Chavin, Peru, 1200-200 BCE Height: 20.5 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchase

A Stirrup-Spout Bottle with Incised Decoration, Cupisnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE The body of the vessel is decorated with two versions of highly stylized representations of bleeding, anthropomorphic hea

A Stirrup-Spout Bottle Modeled Depictions of Two Shrimps on the Handle, Chimu, Peru, 900-1534 CE Height: 21.7 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 216, p. 16

A Stirrup Spout Effigy Bottle: A Condor, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Representation of a condor, the biggest flying bird of the region, considered the lord of the air and one of the major spirits of

An Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Monkey, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 22.2 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 173, p. 158 (