Huge Nazca Polychrome Canteen Severed Heads, ex-Museum

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A fabulous canteen of an enormous size that is hand-built from pottery with highly burnished surfaces and intricate decorations paint

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A fabulous and vibrant bowl featuring a polychrome pattern of stylized heads. The petite vessel rests on a rounded but stable base. The thick

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, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. A hand-built pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a stylized anthropomorphic effigy portrayed elaborately adorned in great detail, all i

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, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a gorgeous piece that exemplifies many of the classic hallmarks of the Nazca people's distinctive pottery. This is a polychro

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A fine, large slip-painted terracotta vessel, of a round bottomed form with a flared rim, depicting a wide register that contains four large

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A beautiful and petite pottery bowl, hand built and painted with vibrant hues. This bowl features a figure around the body known variously as th

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. An exquisitely painted bridge-spout vessel of a globular form with a rounded base and a mesmerizing arrangement of frogs across its e

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. This is a polychrome deep bowl (kero or quero) with a rounded body and a flaring rim. The exterior is ringed with a row of figures holding tr

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 650 CE. A gorgeous example of a pottery stirrup vessel depicting the head of a fierce jaguar. Presented in hues of citrine, burnt sienna, c

** A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this lot will benefit The Fowler Museum at UCLA ** Latin America, Mexico, Tonala, Jalisco, ca. mid 20th century CE. A mold-made glazed ceramic head bank w

A haunting Vintage Shrunken Head. South American, early twentieth century. Displayed at the Metamora Museum Of Oddities as an authentic shrunken head, but is more likely an excellent vintage facsimile

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

Pre-Columbian, southeastern Mexico, Chontal, ca. 800 to 300 BCE. Huge greenstone standing "blind" figure showing very strong Olmec chacteristics, but clearly Chontal from the Guerrero region. He stand

Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel featuring the Anthropomorphic Mythical Being (or AMB) decorated with polychrome pigments.

Spanish Colonial School, carved Santo, ex-museum, 16th c., Philippines, polychrome painted carved wood, depicting a winged robed St. Vincent Ferrer, museum label and collection sticker verso, 15"h x 8

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A fascinating and incredibly rare figural ceramic vessel in the form of a shaman holding serpents. The figure wears a dramatic, conical

Pair large ornamental iron gates, ex-museum, 19th c., wrought and cast iron, with arched top, openwork scrolls ending in flower-heads, one half with smaller inset hinged door, inscribed INRI on panel

New Kingdom, 1550 - 1077 BC, Ancient Egyptian wood carving. Polychrome painted detailing. The back side with museum deaccession / archive numbers. Measures 14" x 4" x 3.5" deep.Ex Museum, Private Cali

Monumental wrought, cast iron gates, ex-museum, 19th c., paired ornamental doors, with openwork scrolls ending in flower-heads and masks, open hinges and handle hole on the sides, 116"h x 75"w (total)

(8) Senufo Heddle pulleys, ex-museum, late 19th to second half 20th c., Ghana/Ivory Coast/Burkina Faso, carved wood, three carved with stylized bird finials, four with human heads, two mounted on plin

Large Egyptian style heart scarab, ex-museum, Possibly ancient (c. 664-332 BCE), terracotta clay, the head and wing case sharply defined, the underside inscribed with fourteen rows of cuneiform text,

Ancient bronze Nefertem & Osiris, ex-museum, Incl. Nefertem, probably 1070-712 BCE, in solid cast dark patina bronze, depicted with a beard and tripartite head-cloth, crowned with characteristic lotus