Collection of 48 Pre-Columbian Hand-Built Pottery Heads & Bust Artifacts Circa 500 BCE

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, ca. 550 to 100 BCE; Chupicuaro, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A fabulous collection of 23 hand-built pottery heads and busts from both Michoac

Pre-Columbian, Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Tlatilco culture, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE; Ecuador, Jamacoaque, ca. 500 CE. A set of 2 hand-built pottery artifacts from ancient Mexico and Ecuador. First i

**Originally Listed At $50** Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 1000 to 400 BCE; Mexico, Pre-Classic period, ca. 500 BCE. A lovely pair of hand-built terracotta heads from ancient

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. An impressive ensemble of 5 hand-built pottery artifacts; 1 Colima f

**Originally Listed At $3500** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Guanajuato Valley, Chupicuaro, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A fabulous, hand-built, bichrome pottery face bowl with a bold visage on one side prese

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Chavin, late Cupisnique, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. An exquisite, hand-built pottery vessel featuring a spherical body with a flat base, highly burnished surfaces, and a stir

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan area, Teotihuacan, ca. 100 BCE to 500 CE. A collection of 4 hand built blackware vessels, all resting upon tripodal legs. The largest has hollow legs with clay ba

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Chavin, ca. 800 to 500 BCE. A hand-built pottery stirrup vessel depicting a portly figure seated upon the voluminous base. The figure holds both incised arms up tow

**Originally Listed At $1000** Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Recuay culture, ca. 500 BCE. A hand-built pottery vessel depicting a 'pretty lady' adorned in striking patterns as she presents a pet

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. A hand-built pottery vessel with a planar base, a compressed spherical body, a large, stirrup-shaped handle, and a broad spout with a thic

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Tlatilco culture, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A hand-built pottery head fragment from a larger figure, perhaps a female "fertility" idol. Her lo

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. An attractive, hand-built pottery bowl of a broad form with a slightly convex base, sturdy walls, and a wide, shallow basin. Highl

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Chupicuaro, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE; Central Mexico, Aztec Empire, ca. 1345 to 1521 CE. A fine set of 4 hand-built pottery smoking pipes, 3 from the Aztec Empire and 1 from t

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Chupicuaro, Michoacan, Nayarit, and Colima, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A set of 5 hand-built pottery figures from ancient West Mexico. Two of the figures are Colima females sta

**First Time At Auction** Pe-Columbian, West/Central Mexico, Chupicuaro, Nayarit, and Mixtec, ca. 500 BCE to 1500 CE. A fine gathering of 5 hand-built pottery vessels from across ancient Mexico. First

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Manabi Province, Jamacoaque (Jama-Coaque) culture, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. An hand-built pottery vessel of incredible size with a globular olla on the verso and an incredible ef

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A hand-built grayware pottery vessel in the shape of a full-faced duck. Incised striations on either side of the body represent

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Jamacoaque (Jama Coaque) culture, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. A hand-built pottery ocarina in the form of a standing female figure, her arms extended out from her sides with open pa

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, ca. 500 to 100 BCE; Chupicuaro, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A lovely group of 5 hand-built pottery female figures known as "pretty ladies" based on their depictions o

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Manabi, Bahia culture, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. A set of 3 hand-built pottery figures standing atop delineated legs, each with arms held at their sides and bulbous headdresses. T

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, late Olmec to Proto-Maya culture, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery figure decorated with red pigment. Standing atop delineated legs, the figure

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Chupicuaro culture, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery group scene comprised of a flat base, rolled sides, a planar top, and a trio of seated figures. The legs

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Chupicuaro, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. An intriguing, hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a stylized anthropomorphic figure seated upon thick

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima or Nayarit, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Colombia, Carchi-Narino Highlands, Narino culture, ca. 1250 to 1500 CE. A set of 3 hand-built pottery artifacts from ancient Mexic