Moche Pottery Portrait Vessel w/ Textile Pattern

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche III to Moche IV (Classic Period), ca. 450 to 650 CE. A wonderful pottery portrait vessel featuring a narrow base, a bulbous body with an extending arm and hand, and an annul

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche, Phase III, ca. 400 to 500 CE. A superb portrait vessel created by the Moche culture. The Moche of northern Peru may be the only ancient c

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase I, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A superb four-faced stirrup vessel built out of brownware pottery featuring stylized facial detailing on a slightly rounded base. Ea

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche, Phase V, ca. 600 to 750 CE. A beautiful, hand-built pottery stirrup vessel depicting a highly stylized and attractive portrait of a male, perhaps

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche IV, ca. 550 to 650 CE. This is a striking mold-made portrait stirrup vessel with the shape of the body sculpted as part of the shape of the vessel (rather than painted on).

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 3rd to 5th century CE. A fantastic mold-made portrait vessel showing a figure holding a large panel of woven textile with a geometric pattern. He

Pottery head vessel having a stirrup type spout, depicting a dignitary wearing a horned headdress with side wing-like appendages. The mans face is painted with a star-like pattern. Similar horns can b

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche III, ca 350 to 500 CE. An excellent realistic portrait vessel, showing a figure with wide eyes, a prominent nose with high nostrils, and a thin-lipped, expressive mouth. The

Pre-Columbian, Mexico and northern Central America, Maya Territories, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A wonderful pottery portrait vessel displaying a wide hip, a gently narrowed neck, a

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel in the shape of a portrait head. The vessel exhibits a slightly convex but stable base, a he

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 650 CE. A fascinating pottery vessel with a bulbous body shaped like both a gourd and a figure. The vessel has a rounded body and tapers to

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 400 CE. A fascinating portrait vessel depicting a smiling human face with an expressive visage comprised of squinting eyes, thick brows, a protruding nose,

Pre-Columbian, central/north coast Peru, Moche, Phase II, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A finely constructed pottery vessel with a large standing owl with long talons in high relief, feathers in low relief body

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Moche, Phase IV, 450 to 600 CE. A fierce portrait vessel depicting a warrior with veristic facial detailing including a protruding nose, bulging cheeks, wide eyes,

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A remarkably ornate and quite impressive pottery stirrup vessel surmounted by a seated warrior, elaborately dressed and grasping a

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 700 CE. A mold-formed and highly burnished redware pottery vessel with a round but stable base, a hemispherical body surmounted by a cylind

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase I, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of squat, circular form with a slightly concave base, a compressed spherical body with a rounded sho

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Moche III, ca. 400 to 600 CE. Hard not to smile when you see this happy fellow! Pottery stirrup spouted vessel depicting the head of a dignitary. Strong facial features,

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase I, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of squat, circular form with a compressed spherical body, a stirrup-shaped handle, and a tapered cyl

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Moche, ca. 500 to 800 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished blackware pottery vessel with a round but stable base, a spherical body, and a stylized head comprising

ca. 500-700 AD. Terracotta head pot fully modelled in a mold. The head with large ear spools, hair covering sides of the face, mustache on each side of the mouth, and wearing headband. Dimensions: 5-1

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 650 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a flat-bottomed form depicting Ai Apec, the chief deity of the Moche people. The spherical vessel be

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase II, ca. 350 to 500 CE. An attractive, hand-built pottery stirrup vessel of spherical form adorned with brick-red pigment atop a cream-hued ground. Sitting

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche, Phase V, ca. 600 to 750 CE. A mold-formed stirrup vessel featuring a flat base and bulbous body depicting a charming frog, perhaps a toad, with a curious look on its face.