Rare Colima Pottery Whistling Aristocrat & Reclinitario

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A charming, hand-built terracotta figure depicting a seated male aristocrat in front of a reclinitario. The man has

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

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fantastic ceramic whistle in the form of a ballplayer, shown wearing a heavy yoke, with the body decorated with a

**Originally Listed At $700** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A very nice example of a seated, flat-style ceramic figure. The figure wears a skirt, armbands, and a necklace

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE/CE. Rare pottery vessel in "envelope" form. Thin pouring jar with slightly flared rim with red slipped exterior decorated on each side with square incis

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE/CE. Very rare and very attractive pottery whistle in the form of a dancer. Legs and arms spread wide, rattle in each hand, applied loin-cloth and long s

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery figure depicting a seated drummer with bent legs and an upright posture. The figure's right hand holds a small ball or p

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. So rare, this fine pottery whistle represents a miniature seated redware shaman! He wears the classic shaman's horn on his forehead and a fan

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A lovely, hand-built terracotta flat figure reclining on a raised, integral platform. The figure wears an intri

Pre-Columbian, West Coast Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An incredibly unusual musical instrument from ancient Mexico! Pottery with red burnished finish further enhanced with incised decoratio

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fine set of 2 hand-built pottery whistling figures from ancient Colima. The first standing figure holds one arm to his brow, bears puffy ey

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fascinating ceramic figure depicting a pregnant woman with a hunched back. Hunchbacks make frequent appearances in the art of the shaft tom

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An oddly compelling vessel in the form of a huge insect or arachnid, perhaps a tick based on the shape of the body but with only six legs - m

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1200 to 1400 CE. A wonderful, naturalistic depiction of a long-beaked bird standing atop a spotted eel. A tall, thin spout rises from the middle of the eel's

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fine hand-built terracotta warrior figure standing atop delineated legs in a wide stance. Wearing a plaited skirt with several dangling orn

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Middle Cauca, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A double-chambered anthropomorphic whistling vessel, of a beautiful form finished in red and white slip, the front section featuring a human

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera culture, ca. 9th to 4th century BCE. An early and creative double-lobed whistling vessel. Each lobe is the body of a monkey. One sits facing forward, one hand to its m

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A unique vessel in the form of a bent leg terminating in a foot, with a round-mouthed open spout at the other e

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. The ancients of the Americas created beautiful musical instruments out of pottery, most adorned with animal or human figurines, and the indig

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, ca. 500 to 100 BCE. Rare and lovely Vicus pottery whistling vessel. With twin rounded lobes, one with spout, other with bird head - whistles incorporated into head - cove

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. I love this guy! A hollow pottery vessel in the form of a jaguar with a large conical spout on its back. The jaguar has an open, snarling mou

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A beautiful hand-built pottery turtle vessel with a highly-burnished surface, lustrous red slip coating, and wonderful z

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built redware pottery sculpture of an incredibly rare form composed of two emaciated canines that are conjoined a

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, possibly Jalisco or Nayarit culture, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A rare pair of pottery foot vessels, each having a stylized human face molded onto the front of the cyli