An Effigy Figurine: Standing Priest, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE

An Effigy Figurine: Standing Priest, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 18.6 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 174, p. 158 (

A Spouted Effigy Jar: Seated Priest, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 25 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 181, p. 159 (

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Kneeling Priest, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 22.9 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 179, p. 159 (

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 (

A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Owl, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 20 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 182, p. 159 (

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Loaded Llama, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 21.9 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 184, p. 159 (

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Classic "Portrait Vessel", Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE The man represented in the vessel has an elaborate cloth headdress decorated with geometrical motifs. His has and

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 Short Spouted Bottle: Monkey Effigy, Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 12.1 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between 200

A Spouted Jar: Anthropomorphic Owl, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 20.7 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 180, p. 159 (

A Dipper, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 11.2 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 183, p. 159 (

A Zoomorphic Effigy Jar, Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 17.6 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between 2000-2008. Estate

An Effigy Bottle: Standing Man with a Big Chicha Storage Jar, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Spout-and-handle effigy bottle with a representation of a well-dressed standing male tasting or drinking chi

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 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 Coiled Trumpet: Mythical Animal Effigy, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Trumpet with zoomorphic representation of a mythical being with characteristics of a feline, a box and a body of a snake. Heigh

A Hand Effigy Vessel, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Effigy vessel modeled in the shape of a clenched human hand with bracelet. Isolated arms and legs were frequently depicted in Andean art and made of

A Stirup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Owl, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Effigy bottle with a depiction of a stranding barn owl. This mysterious nocturnal bird of prey, frequently shown in Moche art, was prob

A Stirup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Rodent, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Effigy bottle with a very rare representation of a plains or mountain vizcacha (chinchilla family) depicted in a pose typical of fel

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Moche, ca. 450 to 700 CE. Oh so rare and so macabre! This pottery kero was adeptly created in the form of a well modeled and meticulously tattooed arm with a bent elbow a

A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Jar: Duck, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Height: 15.6 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 168, p. 158 (

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

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Human Skull, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Skeletal figures were frequently depicted in Moche art. They represented the "living dead" who appeared in various r

A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Spotted Dog, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE The dog was one of the very few domesticated animals in the Andes. The Moche believed that dogs escorted the dead to the un