![A Group of Ethnographic Potter and Stone: A carved stone head (unknown origin), a blackware pot decorated with a snake, a primitive clay mortar, a Pre-Columbian Mexican Zoomorphic figure, a figural bowl, also Pre-Columbian from Mexico, and a](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6623/332861/179645665_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717933419)
Pre-Columbian Clay
![A Group of Ethnographic Potter and Stone: A carved stone head (unknown origin), a blackware pot decorated with a snake, a primitive clay mortar, a Pre-Columbian Mexican Zoomorphic figure, a figural bowl, also Pre-Columbian from Mexico, and a](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6623/332861/179645665_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717933419)
![(2 Pc) Pre Columbian Footed Painted Clay Bowls: DESCRIPTION: Two pre-Columbian clay bowls - one tripod, one with a raised reticulated foot and spiky protrusions around its exterior - each painted with lines and patterns in red and orange throughout](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1373/332325/179230069_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717450977)
![ANCIENT PRE COLUMBIAN ANTHROPOMORPHIC CLAY VESSEL: An ancient Pre-Columbian globular clay vessel. The top section of the vessel is modeled to depict a creature or deity with a long snout, embodying the rich mythological and cultural significance of Pr](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6975/333397/180018399_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718372239)
![Pre-Columbian Blowfish Effigy Pot: Pre-Columbian hanging blowfish effigy clay pot. Unsigned. Measures 6" wide. Domestic shipping $16.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/7135/325611/177938591_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716514712)
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![Toshiko Takaezu turned clay into poetry](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Purple-Moon.jpg)
Toshiko Takaezu turned clay into poetry
NEW YORK – A handful of artists have taken the material of clay to new heights. One of the most celebrated is Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011), whose ceramics are prized for their artistic skill and complex execution as well as their poetic surfaces. Born in Hawaii, she worked in several mediums during her five-decade career, from […]
![Israeli scientists brew beer in clay vessels with revived ancient yeasts](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/featured-1-5.jpg)
Israeli scientists brew beer in clay vessels with revived ancient yeasts
JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli researchers raised a glass Wednesday to celebrate a long-brewing project of making beer and mead using yeasts extracted from ancient clay vessels — some over 5,000 years old.
![Mark Catesby’s Heath Hen and Eastern Shooting Star Hand-colored Engraving leads our five auction highlights](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Trillium-Antique-Prints-and-Rare-Books-April-6-Mark-Catesby.jpeg)
Mark Catesby’s Heath Hen and Eastern Shooting Star Hand-colored Engraving leads our five auction highlights
Mark Catesby, Heath Hen and Eastern Shooting Star Hand-colored Engraving, $5,555 FRANKLIN, TN – Mark Catesby (1683-1749) was born in England, but after traveling to South Carolina, he became America’s first naturalist and illustrator. A century before Audubon, he published the seminal Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of […]
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Gio Ponti Triennale Armchairs lead our five auction highlights
Gio Ponti Triennale Armchairs, $117,900 CHICAGO – Among the starring lots at the Wright Design sale on March 28 was this pair of Gio Ponti lacquered wood, upholstery, and brass Triennale armchairs dating to 1951. The design is one produced for ISA (Industria Salotti e Arredamenti), the luxury furniture firm. To achieve the effect of […]