Chorrera Spouted Whistling Vessel Shaman / Ruler

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera culture, ca. 800 to 400 BCE. A charming pottery whistle vessel in the form of an anthropomorphic figure wearing a biconical cap that sugg

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Casa Grande, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 900 BCE. A rare example of a hand-built pottery stirrup vessel depicting a seated shaman smoking a pipe. The detailing on t

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1400 to 1532 CE. A marvelous and musical pottery whistling vessel comprised of 2 chambers, each with a band of relief zoomorphs and adorned in hues of orange, b

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 1000 to 1470 CE. A fabulous musical whistling vessel comprised of 2 discoid chambers with a shaman figure atop one and a slender, tubular handle capping t

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera culture, ca. 800 to 400 BCE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel, the surfaces covered in brown pigment, while the shoulder is surmounted by a petite mous

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche/Mochica, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A bichrome anthropomorphic whistling stirrup vessel created by the Moche culture depicting a seated male figure, likely a shaman, wit

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera culture, ca. 500 BCE. A red-brown terracotta rectangular double lobed vessel with a bridge handle between the lobes. A diminutive bird perches on the top front lobe, p

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera culture, ca. 9th to 4th century BCE. An early and creative double-lobed whistling vessel. Each lobe is the body of a monkey. One sits facing forward, one hand to its m

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera, ca. 1000 to 500 BCE. An impressive redware whistling stirrup vessel depicting a coatimundi, nicely delineated with round eyes, a pointy snout, small cup-shaped ears,

Originally offered at $700... Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 1000 to 1470 CE. A musical whistling bridge-spouted, double-chambered vessel adorned in a warm hue of pale yellow. Mold-mad

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera culture, ca. 9th to 4th century BCE. A hand-built redware pottery vessel with a stable, near-flat base, a globular body with a zoomorphic head near the top, a tubular

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Sican/Lambayeque Valley, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. Cute pottery bridge spouted vessel with working whistle. Twin globes of rounded form support a feline on one side and flattened spout

**Originally Listed At $1200** Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Huari, Lima-Niviera, ca. 1000 CE. A wonderful polychrome, double-lobed whistling stirrup spouted vessel. The front lobe depicts a male

**Originally Listed At $950** Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1000 CE. A musical whistling bridge-spouted stirrup vessel created by the Chancay culture. This example features a

Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 300 to 500 CE. Large and amusing pottery bridge-spouted vessel in the form of a shaman intertwined with 12 snakes. On his lap are 4 snakes in sha

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 CE. A musical whistling bridge-spouted, double-chambered vessel adorned in a warm hue of pale yellow. Mold-made, the fascinating vessel features two c

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 CE. A musical whistling bridge-spouted, double-chambered vessel adorned in a hue of pale yellow. Mold-made, the fascinating vessel features two circul

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 CE. A musical whistling bridge-spouted, double-chambered vessel adorned in a hue of pale yellow. Mold-made, the fascinating vessel features two circul

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Lambayeque, ca. 800 - 1000 CE. One of the finer bridge-spouted vessels from this region we have seen! Whistling vessel in two square lobes connected by a bridge spout. Ea

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera, ca. 1000 to 800 BCE. An adorable red on buff terracotta whistling vessel from a culture that existed at the same time - and probably traded with - the more famous Cha

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Viru, ca. 300 BCE to 100 CE. A Viru bichrome whistling vessel in the form of a sweet monkey or transitioning dwarf/shaman with simian features, an arched tubular bridg

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Lambayeque-Chimu, ca. 700 to 1200 CE. A lovely blackware, single spouted and footed stirrup vessel depicting a seated lord figure wearing an oversized tumi-shaped head

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. An evocative pottery vessel in the form of the head of a shaman with pursed lips as though whistling and 2 vert

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, Santana-Santa River, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. An incredible ceramic stirrup vessel in the form of a stylized llama or alpaca with incised harpy eagle heads and glyp