A Spout Effigy Bottle: Seated Priest with a Headdress, Moche, Peru, 600-900 CE

A Spout Effigy Bottle: Seated Priest with a Headdress, Moche, Peru, 600-900 CE Height: 13.8 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Ma

A Strap-and-Spout Effigy Bottle: Human Head, Huari-Related Local Style, Peru, 600-900 CE A man wearing a simple headdress and round earplugs. His face is decorated with beautiful and complex paintings

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Kneeling Priest, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 22.9 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 179, p. 159 (

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 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

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Huari / Wari, ca. 600 to 700 CE. An anthropomorphic effigy spout bottle depicting a seated figure with finely delineated hands placed upon upraised knees and tiny feet

A Spouted Effigy Jar: Seated Priest, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 25 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 181, p. 159 (

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

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 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 Stirup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Rodent, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Effigy bottle with a very rare representation of a plains or mountain vizcacha (chinchilla family) depicted in a pose typical of fel

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Hairless Dog, Chimu, Peru, 900-1534 CE Height: 19.8 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 218, p. 163 (

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

An Achira Tuber Vessel: Double-Spout-and-Bridge Effigy Bottle, Peru, Late Nasca, 300-600 CE The head of the man has fifteen holes in the back and in the face serving as the acoustic chamber of the whi

A Lucuma Fruit Vessel: Double-Spout-and-Bridge Effigy Bottle, Peru, Late Nasca, 300-600 CE Two joined lucuma fruits decorated with painted star-like elements (probably a representation of the masks us

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Loaded Llama, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 21.9 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 184, p. 159 (

A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Owl, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 20 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 182, p. 159 (

A Stirrup Spout Effigy Bottle: Squatting Man Holding a Jar, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Depiction of a crouched man with a small jar resting on his shoulder. The man wears a long tunic, large earplu

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: A Deity Playing Panpipe, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE The body of the vessel is modeled in the shape of a platform on which the reclining divinity is propped up on his

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

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

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 Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: A Representation of a Mythical Feline-Snake, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Profile representation of a mythical being elaborated in low relief. The creature has an undul

A Yacon Root Effigy Bottle with Flaring Spout, Chimu, Peru, 900-1534 CE Height: 13.9 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 209, p. 162 (