A choice Tepe Sialk spouted vessel

Ancient Near East, southwestern Caspian Sea region, northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, Tepe Siaulk (Sialk) culture, ca. 9th to 8th century BCE. A hand-built grayware pouring vessel with a flat

Near East, Persia, ca. 1st millennium BCE. Bulbous greyware pottery vessel with a long elegant bird form beak spout and a small applied loop handle from the rim to the shoulder. The shoulder has incis

Ancient Near East, Iran and Turkey, Tepe Sialk (also Tepe Siaulk), ca. 4000 to 3600 BCE. An elegant pottery drinking cup featuring linear decoration incised and hand-painted in burnt orange on a peach

Near East, Iran / Fertile Crescent, possibly Tepe Marlik or Tepe Sialk, ca. 1500 to 1000 BCE. A very fine earthenware pouring vessel of beautiful tawny hues and an elegant silhouette. The large globul

An excellent Harappan vessel from the Indus Valley, ca. 2500 - 1800 BC. This choice spouted jar is 4.75 inches tall and is decorated with a pair of nicely detailed Brahma bulls. They are separated by

A choice Harappan jar from the northern Indus Valley, c. 2500 - 1800 BC. This well-made spouted vessel is decorated with a register of Ibex, as well as a serpentine band encircling the spout. Dia: 2 3

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, Santana-Santa River, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. An incredible ceramic stirrup vessel in the form of a stylized llama or alpaca with incised harpy eagle heads and glyp

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Casa Grande, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 900 BCE. A rare example of a hand-built pottery stirrup vessel depicting a seated shaman smoking a pipe. The detailing on t

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Trujillo, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 400 to 500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery jaguar of immense size and form with hollow legs, a curled tail, a massive s

Scare Pre-Columbian Maya Spouted Vessel in the form of VUK’UB KAK’IX from the Southern Maya Lowlands, ca. 100 B.C.-250 CE. This is a type rarely seen but one of the finest examples. Usulut

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A well-crafted figural stirrup vessel depicting an animated fisherman laying atop a large net without any fish contained inside. The

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche ca. 400 to 700 CE. Large and detailed pottery jar in the form of a regal owl. Body covered with cream feathers over brick-red background. His facial expression is one of the

Zapotec Spouted Vessel from Southern Mexico, ca. 300-500 A.D. Depicting a highly ornamented figure with headdress, necklace and ear-spools. Traces of red still visible. A fantastic and rare example! 6

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche culture, Moche III, ca. 450 to 600 CE. Wonderful pottery stirrup vessel painted in shades of brick-red and off-white. Procession of standing sea birds walk along co

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, Tembladera phase, ca. 800 to 500 BCE. A remarkable mold-made pottery stirrup vessel presenting a double-chamber body in the form of a conch shell and a

Originally listed at $1,500... Pre-Columbian, Central Coast of Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 850 to 1100 CE. A rare example of a mold-formed pottery vessel shaped like a pacay pod (also known as Inga feuil

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. An adorable pottery vessel in the form of an opossum with a raised head on one side and a broad spout at the other, connected by a bridge-

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Meshkinshar, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2000 BCE. A hand-built and stone-burnished blackware pottery jar of broad, spherical fo

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 300 CE. An elegant polychrome figural vessel depicting a kneeling woman holding ritualistic implements or perhaps abstract representations of sea cre

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. An intriguing blackware stirrup vessel with an incised motif and high relief anthropomorphic figure with a bird. The vessel has a flat ba

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 BCE to 125 CE. Full of personality, this human effigy vessel of a seated man with a quasi-cylindrical body and an ovoid head with a bridge spout handle

Ancient Near East, Iran and Turkey, Tepe Sialk (also Tepe Siaulk), ca. 4000 to 3600 BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery drinking cup with an inverted piriform body and a wide rim all upon a thick foot. The up

African, Lobi people of Burkina Faso, terracotta ceramic pottery vessel with spherical body and double spout neck with spiked decoration, together with a hand-woven stand. 10" H x 7.5" diameter.

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A truly spectacular vessel! Globular bridge spouted vessel painted with the mythical feline decapitator god with long serpentine body to which is attac