Huge Etruscan Brazier Animal Frieze, ex-Arte Primitivo

Italy, Etruscan culture, ca. 768 to 264 BCE. A huge pottery brazier, round in form, with the clay a deep red color and signs of use. Twin rings around the rim have been stamped using a cylinder stamp

Italy, Etruscan culture, ca. 768 to 264 BCE. A huge pottery brazier, round in form, with the clay a deep red color and signs of use. Twin rings around the rim have been stamped using a cylinder stamp

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A wonderful hand-carved wooden atl atl (also atlatl, atl-atl) or spear thrower of a rod-shaped form with an ivory finial at one end and a cop

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima culture, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A charming pottery vessel in the form of a swallow mid-flight with wings widely spread and head lifted at a

A lovely carved wooden female effigy with highly stylized face and form, and a deep well handled surface patina, custom mounted. The statue measures 17.5 inches tall ( 19.25 inches tall on professiona

Anatolia, Cycladic, western Turkey, ca. 2500 BCE. A carved white marble stargazer, with faint nose and neck. Marble is off white in color with some tan. Size: 1-3/8"H. Provenance: Ex-Arte Primitivo G

Mayan 500-800BC Massive fanged jaguar head tenon carved in dark gray volcanic stone. Coiled tongue with remnants of red cinnabar pigment - measures15.5" x 6.5" x 7"

**Originally Listed At $3500** Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 850 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of an elegant form with a flat base, a carinated lowe

Egypt, Late Period, Ptolemaic period, ca. 300 to 30 BCE. Openwork cartonnage aegis collar breast plate and vertical column register. Painted gesso surface in blue and red on a white ground with some b

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A tall, hollow-cast redware terracotta warrior figure with a nicely burnished surface. The male warrior is hunched over, standing on two broa

Pre-Columbian, Peru, northern coastal region, Recuay, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. Large double-sided canteen vessel depicting a stylized human head. Wide toothy grin, face painted in reddish-brown on a cre

Egypt, ca. 1800 BC. A sizeable wooden figure of a striding man, perhaps originating from a large model boat. Custom base. Ex: Arte primitivo, NYC. MEASUREMENTS Height including base: 9 inches / 23 cm

Ancient Cypriot Pottery Jug c.1000 BC. Size 10 1/2 inches high. Attractive white pottery Jug decorated in red and brown lines with circle design. Provenance: Ex NYC acquired Arte Primitivo

Greece, Corinthian, ca. late 7th century BCE. A very large and highly decorated amphora from the Orientalizing period, with its body divided into horizontal registers separated by thick chocolate brow

A large Etruscan Bucchero amphora with animal frieze, c. 610 – 590 BC, with beautifully burnished glossy black surfaces. Around the side of the body is a beautifully incised animal frieze containing

Etruscan 580-560 B.C..Beige clay, cream slip. H. with roundels 31.4 cmLarge jug on round base with double handle and two roundels. Four registers of animal friezes in brown, red and white matt glaze o

A huge Etruscan Bucchero kyathos, c. 6th Century BC, on a stemmed foot, the tall handle with flanges on either side at the top and flanked by projections on the rim. The bowl with deep angled walls an

A Roman Gold and Garnet Finger Ring Circa 3rd Century A.D. Provenance: Willem Bastiaan, Netherlands, 1980s-1990s. Private Collection, New York. Arte Primitivo, New York,Fine Pre-Columbian, Tribal Art

Heading: Author: Tagliacozzi, Gaspare Title: Cheirurgia nova... de narium, aurium, labiorum'que defectu, per insitionem cutis ex humero, arte, hactenus omnibus ignota, serviendo... Place Published: F

Ancient Etrusco-Corinthian Olpe With Beautiful Animals

This is a massive Keokuk Axe that is pictured in the Keokuk Axes book by Bruce Filbrandt. Huge at 7" long it comes out of the Thomas Browner collection. Tag number B-47 indicating it was acquired earl

Each fine quality example on marble base and bronze is painted with a frieze of Etruscan figures in iron-red, the neck with hanging trophies ornament and gilt goat head masks each side. Each measures

Kashan Calligraphic Luster Tile, Persian, 13th / 14th Century, with moulded relief design of a frieze of animals at the top, and part of an arch containing script in the main section. Provenance: Isla

Three (3) Chinese bronze items. 1st item: Chinese bronze censer, archaic form with gilt bronze pierced top, animal mask handles, relief frieze to the body and tall tripod legs. Chinese inscription on