A Spout-and-Handle Whistling Effigy Bottle: Seated Male, Salinar, Peru, 200 BCE-100 CE

A Spout-and-Handle Whistling Effigy Bottle: Seated Male, Salinar, Peru, 200 BCE-100 CE Height: 17.7 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 133, p. 154 (

A Plain Stirrup-Spout Bottle, Salinar, Peru, 200 BCE-100 CE Height: 20.3 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 135, p. 154 (

An Effigy Bottle: Standing Man with a Big Chicha Storage Jar, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Spout-and-handle effigy bottle with a representation of a well-dressed standing male tasting or drinking chi

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Salinar culture, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. This is a nicely shaped terracotta jug with a seated woman holding a child on her lap forming the spout. A curved handle joi

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Vicús culture, ca. 200 BCE to 600 CE. This is a double vessel with a narrow spout on one side, a strap handle between the two bulbous bottoms, and a seated jaguar perched atop th

A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Bean, Nasca, Peru, 200-600 BCE Height: 8 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between 2000

An Effigy Bottle: Male Holding a Bowl, Vicus, Peru, 200 BCE-800 CE Height: 23.7 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 138, p. 154 (

A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Spotted Dog, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE The dog was one of the very few domesticated animals in the Andes. The Moche believed that dogs escorted the dead to the un

Stirrup-Spout Vessel with Monkey Emerging from a Beaker, Salinar, Peru, 200 BCE-100 CE The beaker containing the monkey might also symbolize a funerary bundle, these images were probably associated wi

A Spout and Stirrup Effigy Bottle: Two Figures Seated on an Urn, Moche, Peru, 200-500 CE Height: 17.7 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by

A Spout-and-Bridge Effigy Bottle: Warrior, Early Nasca, Peru, 1-200 CE Depicting a standing male holding arrows in this right hand and a spear thrower and mace in his left hand. The warrior is depicte

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Salinar culture, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. A striking ceramic stirrup vessel with a round body with flattened base, a thick stirrup handle, and a short, flaring spout

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 BCE to 125 CE. Full of personality, this human effigy vessel of a seated man with a quasi-cylindrical body and an ovoid head with a bridge spout handle

Pre-Columbian, Oaxaca, Mexico, Zapotec culture, Monte Alban, ca. 100 BCE to 200 CE. A dramatic, bulbous-bodied figural bottle with a wide spout ending in a slightly flared rim. Attached to the body ar

A Double Spout-and-Bridge Bottle Ornamented with a Mythological Parrot Effigy, Nasca, Peru, 100 BCE -800 CE Height: 19.2 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switze

A Stirup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Owl, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Effigy bottle with a depiction of a stranding barn owl. This mysterious nocturnal bird of prey, frequently shown in Moche art, was prob

A Stirrup Spout Effigy Bottle: A Condor, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Representation of a condor, the biggest flying bird of the region, considered the lord of the air and one of the major spirits of

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Human Skull, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Skeletal figures were frequently depicted in Moche art. They represented the "living dead" who appeared in various r

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: A Rat Gnawing Maize Cob, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE The iconographical theme of a rat gnawing a maize cob is very ancient and probably related to harvest rituals. He

An Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Monkey, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 22.2 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 173, p. 158 (

A Stirrup-Spout Bottle with Stylized Representations of Ospreys, Cupinnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE The body is decorated with two representations of he mythical Cupinnique ospreys (fish-eagles) - birds w

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Classic "Portrait Vessel", Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE The man represented in the vessel has an elaborate cloth headdress decorated with geometrical motifs. His has and

A Spout-and-Stirrup Bottle: Anthropomorphic Foot, Chavin, Peru, 900 BCE - 500 CE Height: 22 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Ma

Roman Republic / early Roman Empire, ca. 200 BCE to 100 CE. Before the invention of glass blowing in the first century CE, Roman manufacturers of household goods used a variety of other materials to f