Colima 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 a

**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 s

Pre-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 flare

Pre-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 t

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A redware pottery saucer olla with a carinated body and a flared rim. The highly burnished surfaces are covered in russe

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

**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, his

**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 face

Pre-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 vessel

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A double chambered bridge-spout vessel, the front chamber adorned with a near miniature bird or perhaps turtle. When intact, this piece was a whistling

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.

Pre-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 an

Pre-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 an

Pre-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 cr

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. This brilliant vermillion pottery vessel is in the form of a wide, voluminous squash with a body that is stylistically segmented with smooth, fine ve

**Originally Listed At $1200** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built redware pottery vessel of a rather unusual form. When gripped at the neck and held upside down, t

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. An adorable redware pottery vessel in the form of an endearing round-bottomed, baby bird with its head raised an beak open, calling for food

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima culture, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. One of the most fabulous Colima acrobat vessels we have ever seen! Quite a contortionist, this gent stands on his hands with his legs

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An impressive hand-made pottery reclinatario with one side in the form an abstract zoomorph, perhaps a dolphin, a fish, or a bird, with a hug

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished redware pottery bowl with large, coiling snakes decorating the exterior walls. Each se

This is a Pre-Columbian Colima redware pottery pitcher vessel with a handle and spout. Purchased 8/15/81 The Lands Beyond Ltd., Lexington Ave, NYC w/COA Ref: Von Winning, Plate 107 Sculpture of Ancien

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

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima culture, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fabulous burnished redware vessel depicting a male acrobat arching in a backbend position, his arms and legs forming the legs of th

Pre-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 predators