3 Valdivian Pottery Venus Figures - TL Tested

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A charming trio of female or Venus figures, all skillfully hand-built from pottery to present stylized forms. First, the most petite fi

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A set of 3 hand-built pottery Venus figures depicting characteristic feminine forms with highly burnished surfaces and hues of brown an

**Previously Listed At $450** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A special trio of terracotta "Venus" figures, mold-made and finely detailed with petite visages comprised of deli

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery Venus figurine of feminine form with minimalist features including a set of slit-form eyes and eyebrows. Her sligh

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 BCE. A trio of reddish pottery heads with thin slits for eyes, brows, and mouths, and bulbous hair. These fired clay figures were produced, starting

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 BCE. A trio of reddish pottery heads with thin slits for eyes, brows, and mouths. These fired clay figures were produced, starting at the major Vald

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, Formative Period, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A set of 3 hand-built pottery female heads from larger Venus idol figures, each with incise

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian, Earliest Horizon (Early Piguigua-Late Piquigua Phase, Early Formative Period) ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A trio of small clay figures with faces created by incised slits

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 BCE. A striking pottery figure with thin slits for eyes and mouth, an enormous coiffure/headdress, and a highly stylized body with elongated legs, n

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 BCE. A reddish ceramic figure of a woman. She has a stylized head, with thin slits for eyes, eyebrows, and mouth, and a low relief nose. Her face is

Han Dynasty female pottery figure, TL tested, Han Dynasty (202 BCE-220 CE), unglazed earthenware, modeled as a woman wearing a cowl-like hood and flared robes, 19.5"h x 14"w x 9"d Provenance: The Coll

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Mehrgarh culture, ca. 3500 to 2800 BCE. A remarkable, hand-built pottery figure known as a mother goddess shown in a seated position with

East Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 906 CE. A lovely pair of pottery female attendants, both elegantly dressed in floor-length robes, elaborate updos, and liberal remains of white, black, and o

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, Formative Period, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery idol fragment of intriguing feminine form with a slender waistline, sizable breasts, and a taper

Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Mehrgarh period, ca. 3500 to 2800 BCE. A fabulous, hand-built pottery figure, likely a fertility goddess, depicted standing with a voluptuous, hourglass-shaped body

Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Mehrgarh culture, ca. 3500 to 2800 BCE. An intriguing, hand-built pottery figure known as a mother goddess shown in a seated position with thick legs stretched out

Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Mehrgarh culture, ca. 3500 to 2800 BCE. A lovely, hand-built pottery fertility idol exhibiting highly stylized feminine features. Presenting with slightly bent legs

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery Venus figure of a characteristically feminine form with a slender waist and hands held b

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Tlatilco culture, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A fine gathering of three hand-built pottery Venus or 'pretty lady' figures from different time period

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, Formative Period, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A gathering of 3 hand-built pottery heads, each from a different type of female Venus i

Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia, Old Assyrian Empire, ca. 2025 to 1378 BCE. An impressive, mold-made pottery relief of a standing male genius or apkallu - an ancient sage of Mesopotamian mythology - st

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An evocative pottery figure of a seated shaman posed dramatically with a pugnacious expression; his right hand upraised in a clenched fist pe

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, Formative Period, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built and highly burnished female pottery figure of tall and slender form known as a Venus idol. The face feat

Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Tlatilco, ca. 1200 to 200 BCE. An exemplary hand-built pottery sculpture of a standing female presenting bulbous legs, wide hips, and a narrow torso as she extends her