A Fine Nazca Polychrome Kero, ex-Sotheby's

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A fine, slip-painted terracotta vessel, of a round bottomed form with a flared rim, depicting a wide register that contains two depictions of

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A polychrome pottery drinking vessel (kero) with a slightly corseted body, a flaring rim, and a gently rounded base. Around the exter

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, ca. 250 BCE to 250 CE. Tweet, tweet, tweet! An endearing polychrome terracotta effigy vessel in the form of a bird perched upon two feet and an outspread tail with a s

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A truly spectacular vessel with some of the finest paint we have ever seen. This is a flaring kero (also quero) painted with the mythica

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. A large, well-preserved Nazca polychrome kero (also quero or qero). It is in the form of a disembodied head, probably representing a trophy h

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. A wonderful pottery kero presenting a corseted body and tall, flared neck that leads to a broad rim, all sitting u

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, probably Phases 2 through 4, ca. 1 to 450 CE. A pretty, wide-mouthed bowl with a rounded base and a slightly flared, unpronounced rim. Around the exteri

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. An impressive pottery kero presenting a rounded base and tall walls that taper inwards to a circular rim, all meticulously hand-painted in hues of burnt

Back at auction due to fraudulent bidder from 6/2/2016 sale… Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a deep, flared beaker known as a kero (or quero), which was m

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. An intriguing hand-built pottery drinking vessel known as a kero, painted with figures in hues of black, red, orange, beige, and white. The

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. An attractive pottery kero adorned with a hand-painted motif of a vertically undulating band resembling a snake in hues of black, burnt orang

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 to 540 CE. A wonderful polychrome terracotta kero (also spelled quero, qero, qiru) vessel boasting an impressively painted iconographical program, the e

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 1 to 700 CE. A tall ceramic drinking cup or kero of a tall and undulating form, extensively decorated with registers comprised of figural motifs in hues of

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A fabulous pottery vessel of unique form displaying a conical body and wide, annular rim sitting upon a flared foot with a flat, circ

**Originally Listed At $700** Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. A large, deep bowl with a dark red interior and an exterior ringed with bright and intricate iconography. Repea

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery kero (also quero) presenting gorgeous abstract zoomorphic motifs across the elongated piriform body. The vessel features a round but

A fine Nazca polychrome vessel, c. AD 200 - 500, this globular stirrup bottle features two depictions of the anthropomorphic, mythical Spotted Cat. This rare type symbolically combines feline and huma

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Southern Coast of Peru, Early Nazca, Phase 4, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. A striking kero boasting impressively painted labyrinthian body of the anthropomorphic

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built pottery kero with highly burnished surfaces painted with vibrant polychrome pigments. The vessel features a round but stable bas

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 300 to 600 CE. A hand-built pottery kero or bowl of a broad form resting on a rounded but stable base with slanted walls, and a deep basin with stone-burnis

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 BCE to 125 CE. A wonderful, thin-walled pottery vessel, painted with an abstract textile-inspired pattern of interlocking snakes delineated in red and c

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a polychrome pottery drinking vessel with a slightly corseted body with a flaring rim and gently rounded base. The exterior b

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. This is a deep, flared beaker known as a kero (or quero), which would have been used to hold the fermented maize drink chicha. The exterior i

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. Nazca pottery kero decorated in shades of red, white, black and brown with repeating "net" pattern over alternating bands of red and brown. Very