Sold2022Maya Plumbate Pottery Head Vessel, ex-Arte Primitivo**Originally Listed At $200** Pre-Columbian, Mayan region, Maya/Toltec, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. A "plumbate" pottery head vessel depicting a shaman or priest wearing an enormous tapir head headdress, hisSee Sold Price
Sold2020Maya Plumbate Pottery Head Vessel - ex-Arte Primitivo**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Mayan region, Maya/Toltec, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. A "plumbate" pottery head vessel depicting a shaman or priest wearing an enormous tapir head headdress, his faceSee Sold Price
Sold2022Maya Pottery Vessel w/ Bird & Snake, Ex Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A fascinating pottery vessel of a tall, cylindrical form with a flat base, smooth walls, a deep basin, and a lightly flareSee Sold Price
Sold2023Colima Redware Pottery Bird Vessel, Ex Arte Primitivo**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 aSee Sold Price
Sold2022Fine Chavin Pottery Vessel w/ Snakes, Ex Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 600 BCE. This is an incredible hand-built pottery vessel that is molded with raised serpents on the midsection. The deep umber brown vesselSee Sold Price
Sold2019Nasca Pottery head vessel, Ex Musee Des Beaux ArteAncient Pre Columbian, Nasca Pottery head vessel, Ex Musee Des Beaux Arte Museum Montreal 1957. Canada. Size 5 3/4 inches high x 4 1/2 inches diameter. Peru AD 300-600. A painted pottery vessel with aSee Sold Price
Sold2022Maya Tiquisate Pottery Female Figure, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Maya Territories, Guatemala, Escuintla, Tiquisate region, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A splendid pottery figure of an impressive scale depicting a seated woman elaborately adorned with a sizableSee Sold Price
Sold2024Style of Nazca Humanoid Pottery Vase.Style of Nazca Humanoid Pottery Vase. Size 8 inches high, 5 inches widest pint. A figural pottery vessel with strap handle decorated. Not ancient. Ex Arte primitivo.See Sold Price
Sold2016Recuay Cream Slip Portrait Vessel, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-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 creSee Sold Price
Sold2016Wari Whistling Vessel w/ 4 Faces, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Wari / Huari culture, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A very unusual and striking pottery vessel molded with four faces, but using only 4 eyes. The faces alternate between menacing anSee Sold Price
Sold2023Rare Colima Redware Vessel, ex-Arte Primitivo**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fascinating and rare pottery vessel featuring a rectangular cuboid form with an ovoid spout that rises from one sSee Sold Price
2023Calima Spouted Vessel Stylized Hut, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Colombia, Calima, Ilama phase, ca. 200 CE. A wonderful pottery vessel in the form of a stylized hut or temple with a petite arched doorway, all surmounted by a pair of conical spouts anSee Sold Price
Sold2015Inca Polychrome Gourd Stirrup Vessel, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, northern Peru, ca. 1400 CE. A very finely potted stirrup vessel. Redware pottery "beer" bottle in the form of a native gourd. Long stem in added white with black stipples down top and tSee Sold Price
Sold2016Sican Blackware Stirrup Seated Elder, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, northern Peru, Sican, Lambayeque Valley, ca. 700 - 900 CE. Blackware pottery figural vessel depicting a seated elder, holding his left hand to his chin, right hand to his chest, legs crSee Sold Price
Sold2022Tiahuanaco Double Lobed Vessel with Human HeadTiahuanaco Double Lobed Vessel with Human Head. Size 10 inches length, 6 5.8 inches high. Ex. private collection of a California attorney, ex. Arte Primitivo, auction 75, lot 314, ex. Private CA. collSee Sold Price
Sold2021Maya Polychrome Jar w/ Dignitaries, ex-Arte Primitivo**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 loweSee Sold Price
Sold2018Mayan Polychrome Tripod Plate, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Highlands (Chiapas, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), Maya Late Classic Period, ca. 600 CE. A flare-rimmed dish standing on three short legs, with a central portrait head iSee Sold Price
Sold2017Mayan Jaina Island Molded Figure, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Jaina/Campeche Mexico, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 600 to 850 CE. A charming example of the molded pottery figures made on Jaina Island in the Yucatan. This hollow ceramic figure staSee Sold Price
Sold2016Mayan Stone Metate in Animal Form, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Maya Territories, ca. 200 to 900 CE. A green-grey volcanic stone metate (metlatl) with sturdy tripod legs and a head that - combined with the stiff back - calls to mind a turtle or possSee Sold Price
Sold2015Anatolian Kilia Stargazer Head, ex-Arte PrimitivoAnatolia, 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 GSee Sold Price
Sold2019Central Asian Bronze Axe Head - Ex Arte Primitivo**Originally Listed At $200** Central Asia, Bronze Age, ca. 10th to 7th century BCE. An elegant cast bronze axe head of simple form, with a long, straight, rectangular blade and a round socket with aSee Sold Price
Sold2016Rare Chimu Blackware Pottery Stingray Vessel - Ex ArtePre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. An impressive blackware stirrup effigy vessel in the form of a stingray. Sculptors of the ancient Americas depicted powerful sea predatorsSee Sold Price
Sold2024Mayan Jaguar head Tenon - Ex-Arte PrimitivoMayan 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"See Sold Price
Sold2017Rare Colima Pottery Warrior, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-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 broaSee Sold Price
Jun 16Palmyra Heritage GalleryAncient Egyptian Isis w/Horus-Child Faience Amulet (ca. 700-30 BCE).US$150