Costa Rican Chiriqui Pottery Vessel - Jaguar Form

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

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Chiriqui, ca. 300 to 800 CE. A charming pottery vessel in the form of an owl presenting a bulbous body, a carinated shoulder, and a slender neck that slightly widens to form

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Chiriqui, ca. 300 to 800 CE. A charming pottery vessel in the form of an owl presenting a bulbous body, a carinated shoulder, and a slender neck th

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Chiriqui, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. An impressive, hand-built pottery tripod vessel presenting a bulbous form with a rounded bottom, a corseted neck

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

**Originally Listed At $7500** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A jaguar effigy metate depicting the wild feline standing on all fours with a broad, slightly convex b

**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 Pre Columbian manner Costa Rican Nicoya pottery vessel. The vessel is made in the form of a trophy head decorated with war paint and wearing an elaborate headdress that doubles as the flare

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, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. Large and very expressive polychrome decorated pottery jar in the form of a stylized head. Sitting on pedestal base, it is painted with black and orange

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Greater Nicoya, ca. 300 to 800 CE. A tall, excellently-preserved ceramic tripod bowl with tall rattling legs, sometimes called a spider pot (after the form) or a chocolate p

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. An adorable pottery vessel in the form of a seated zoomorph adorned with black-on-red painted decoration of woven and geom

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed, ca. 300 to 500 CE. An attractive pottery vessel presenting a minimalist, cylindrical form with an exterior adorned with the br

Antique metate grinding stone vessel. Costa Rica, Linea Vieja circa AD 1000-1500. Figural four legged stone utensil in the form of a jaguar great cat. Museum Inventory No. 7.2000.006. Provenance: Coll

Pre-Columbian style, Costa Rican, Nicoya - Guanacaste terracotta pottery effigy vessel with bands of polychrome painted decoration and tripod form, rattle legs, depicting a human on one side and an an

**Originally Listed At $350** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 300 to 700 CE. An attractive ensemble of 4 pottery vessels, all enveloped in vibrant red slip. First,

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

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, San-Luis-Potosi, ca. 600 to 1100 CE. A fantastic round vessel with a studded pottery body and twin handles in the form of cheerful caimans who face in opposite directions. T

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Chorotega culture, ca. 1100 to 1200 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery jar of sizable form with a spherical body displayed atop a flared foot. A

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 800 to 1500 CE | A fine glazed pottery bowl with a grand bulbous body with walls that curve inward over a deep basin, all supported by 3 ribbon-form loo

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

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, 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

This is a Pre-Columbian Costa Rican pottery vessel with a molded face dating to circa 800 A.D. It was acquired from Arte Primitive, Inc on East 65th st in New York City in 1988. Accompanied by the rec