Costa Rican Lidded Pottery Incensario - Jaguar, Monkey

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 1000 CE. A charming small bowl atop a jaguar back, all hand sculpted from pottery and elaborately painted in the unique Costa Rican style. The body of the jaguar is a ra

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 1100 to 1500 CE. A petite zoomorphic pottery bowl with a shallow dish, three conical legs, and an amusing primate head which projects outwards

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A charming, hand-built pottery whistle in the form of a monkey with sizable, round eyes and a protruding snout in a characteristically s

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Chiriqui culture, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a traditional grinding platform called a metate. The quadruped container is

**Originally Listed At $600** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rican, ca. 7th to 12th century CE. A hand built earthenware effigy vessel, possibly representing a chieftain of importance or a significant figure fr

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Chiriqui, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. With its tall tripod support legs, this type of vessel is sometimes referred to as a "spider pot" or a "chocolate pot." It originates from the

**Originally Listed At $150** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 600 to 1200 CE. A hand-built earthenware olla of a graceful form and an extensive decorative/iconographic program embellished with wonderfu

An antique Costa Rican pottery urn featuring a painted jaguar showing a notable artifact indicative of Costa Ricas rich cultural heritage. These pottery vessels, often adorned with painted designs dep

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Pre Columbian, Costa Rican, Kingdom of Nicoya / Cacicazgo, stoneware ceramic pottery jaguar effigy vessel with elaborate polychrome painted decoration and tri-pod form with rattle legs, the jaguar's m

Pre-Columbian, modern day Costa Rica, Nicoya, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. This is a painted tripod pottery bowl with jaguar heads as the legs. The paint is red and black, and on the exterior and the interior

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Pacific Slope, ca. 900 to 1530 CE. One of the finest metates we have ever had the honor of handling, depicting a fierce jaguar with a large table/seat, expertly carved from

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 800 to 1500 CE. A hand-built bowl with a deep, red-painted basin, a flared rim, and 3 abstract avian creatures, all above a trio of tall, loop-form legs

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya-Guanacaste region, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An intriguing rattle leg terracotta vessel painted in a color palette characteristic of this region - in a cream slip overall

A lovely Costa Rican jaguar tripod vessel, AD 1000 - 1200, with three hollow legs one of which is a rattle. The sides are decorated with panels containing a crème geometric design contrasting nicely

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. An adorable bichrome terracotta vessel with three looped feet, each with an abstract amphibian body, supporting the larger superstructure above. The main

9 1/2" Costa Rican Jaguar Metate ca. 500BC from the estate of Giraud foster Baltimore Maryland

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 300 to 700 CE. A tripod, spider-legged terracotta vessel or chocolate pot, presenting an elegant, round-bottomed body supported by t

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 800 to 1500 CE. An intriguing ensemble of six terracotta stamp seals, three with flat faces and protruding handles, and three with cylindri

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic watershed, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A fun, miniature ceramic rattle in the form of an adult holding a child on his or her back. Despite their simplified faces, the figu

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya-Guanacaste region, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An intriguing janus-headed bichrome pottery vessel finished in a cream slip with black painted details. The piece is comprised

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, probably Nicoya area, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A set of 2 hand-built pottery vessels from ancient Costa Rica, a large bowl and a double

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 5th to 6th century CE. An intriguing group of four cylindrical terracotta roller stamps, each one carved/modeled with a mesmerizing design motif: two

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A hand-built pottery ocarina of an abstract and stylized avian form, with a protruding mouthpiece that doubles as a tail. The body featu