Moche I Bichrome Stirrup Vessel - Llama Head Form

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase III to IV, ca. 350 to 700 CE. A delightful bichrome Moche pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a Muscovy duck with head ben

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche V, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A hand-built and highly-burnished pottery vessel with a planar base, globular body, rounded shoulders, a wide

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche III-IV, ca. 200 CE. Something’s fishy about this piece? Seriously fishy! The Moche were avid fisherman who garnered this abundant food source from the coastal

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Period III, ca. 350 to 550 CE. A charming pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a jaguar, hand-painted with a spotted back and striped tail and limbs. Seated wi

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 100 to 700 CE. A large, mold-made pottery vessel in the form of a sweet, smiling sea lion. He has a well-rendered, naturalistic face capped by a s

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A charming, hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a deer with a bulky body surmounted by a stirrup-shaped handle and cylindrical

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche, Phase V, ca. 650 to 850 CE. A delightful pottery of stirrup vessel in the form of a seated figure, likely a lord or shaman, dressed elaborately with a plumed headd

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 650 CE. A charming stirrup vessel, hand-built from pottery, in the form of a seated owl. Highly burnished and adorned with soft cream and c

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase III, ca. 350 to 550 CE. A unique bichrome stirrup vessel in the form of the deity Ai Apec as a turtle. The god has anthropomorphic and reptilian elements

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 100 to 700 CE. A fascinating, intact example of one of the classic forms of pre-Columbian pottery - the Moche stirrup vessel, in the form of an an

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase II, ca. 250 to 400 CE. A hand-built pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a charming Muscovy Duck with a flat base, a plump body flanked with a pair of in

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A delightful bi-chrome stirrup vessel in the form of an iguana. The stirrup rises from the lizard's back, capped by a short, perfectly formed

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 100 to 700 CE. This is a gorgeous intact example of one of the classic forms of pre-Columbian pottery - the Moche stirrup vessel, using the shape

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 700 CE. A fierce pottery stirrup vessel in the form of the head of Ai Apec (also Ai Apaec), the primary god of th

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, Phase III, ca. 350 to 550 CE. An impressive mold-made bi-chrome terracotta vessel in the form of an owl warrior holding a mace and a shield, presentin

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche III-IV, ca. 500 CE. A fabulous frog effigy stirrup vessel of an endearingly expressive form with bulging eyes, slit mouth, and legs poised to leap. The surface i

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche II, ca. 100 BCE to 100 CE. An amusing bi-chrome stirrup vessel presenting a portrait head with wide open, inset almond-shaped eyes, a protruding, curved nose, a wel

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A superb and expertly decorated pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a portrait head of a lord with a naturalistic visage crowned

A Moche Stirrup Spout Portrait Vesselc. 250 - 500 AD  The vessel takes

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, 1100 to 1470 CE. A fine terracotta stirrup vessel in the form of a stylized camelid head, such as a llama, alpaca, or even vicuna. The cranium rests on a concave and conica

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche IV, ca. 100 CE to 500 CE. Bichrome terracotta stirrup vessel depicting a sitting drummer, most likely a shaman, wearing a bird head mask with tear rolling down his cheeks, h

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A bichrome pottery stirrup vessel depicting a jaguar with a magnificent coat, replete with lively spotted and linear markings, looking dec

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A remarkable pottery vessel in the form of an alpaca or llama head with a long snout, a high nasal bridge, a round nose, an incised mout

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche Culture, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A mold-made ceramic vessel in the form of a seated Muscovy duck, its body fat, its head tilted downward to touch its chest. A stirrup