Moche Pottery Keros for Blood Drinking (pr)

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Moche I, ca. 200 CE. Incredibly rare matched pottery keros in the form of human hands and lower arms. Each kero is adorned with an ornate bracelet and detailed fingernail

**Originally Listed At $600** Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Moche V, 600 to 800 BCE. A striking grayware mold made portrait vessel of a person with wide eyes and strong worry lines around the mo

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Lake Titicaca region, Tiahuanaco/Tiwanaku culture, ca. 600 to 800 CE. Interesting matching pair of painted pottery keros from this ancient civilization. Flared cups used for dr

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 700 CE. A wonderful blackware kero in the form of a shaman head in the midst of transformation. Supported by a flat, circular base, the ancient figur

A group of Pre-Columbian objects. Southern Peru, Nasca, CE400-700. ++(2) Pottery bow. ++ Kero wooden drinking cup. Largest: 6 1/2". Provenance: The Alvin M. Cohen Collection, Bethesda MD.

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A polychrome pottery drinking vessel (kero) with a slightly corseted body, a flaring rim, and a gently rounded base. Around the exter

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Moche, ca. 450 to 700 CE. Oh so rare and so macabre! This pottery kero was adeptly created in the form of a well modeled and meticulously tattooed arm with a bent elbow a

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery drinking vessel known as a kero (also quero) with a band of co

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Lake Titicaca region, Tiahuanaco/Tiwanaku culture, ca. 600 to 800 CE. Interesting painted pottery kero from this ancient civilization. Flared cup used for drinking chicha, a na

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 250 to 450 CE. A charming mold-formed pottery figural drinking vessel of a standing chieftain or lord. His body is slightly compressed, and he stands on thi

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. An intriguing hand-built pottery drinking vessel known as a kero, painted with figures in hues of black, red, orange, beige, and white. The

A pair of contemporary pottery vases having an oxblood and turquoise glazed finish. No apparent signature. Each measures approx. 18 1/2" height x 11 1/2" diameter. Shows crazing in red areas. No appar

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 500 CE. Lovely pottery vessel in the form of a human face. Blackware molded kero with portrait quality image of a male. Almond-shaped eyes, labret in hi

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a polychrome pottery drinking vessel with a slightly corseted body with a flaring rim and gently rounded base. The exterior b

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A dramatic mold formed stirrup vessel depicting a predatory scene between a bird and an eel. The brownware vessel is hand built with the coil

Pre-Columbian, central/north coast Peru, Moche, Phase II, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A finely constructed pottery vessel with a large standing owl with long talons in high relief, feathers in low relief body

Circa 550-600 A.D. with polychrome painted glyphs on each side, cylinder form 4" diameter x 6 1/4" high. From a late collector who had been collecting since the 1950's.

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Moche, Phase III to IV, ca. 350 to 700 CE. A wonderful pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a portrait head with prominent face tattoos embellishing the chin, upper l

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, North Coast Peru, Moche III to IV, ca. 400 to 700 CE. A hand-made and highly-burnished pottery vessel with a flat base, a bulbous body with three-dimensional features, and a stirrup-sha

A group of 4 Michael Simon (American, 1947-2021) salt glazed stoneware pottery footed yunomi style drinking cups with glazed interiors, 2 having a fish motif and 2 having a raised diamond pattern moti

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Chimu, Late Intermediate Period, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. An elegant ritual kero (drinking cup) formed from a single sheet of 74.9% gold (equivalent to 17K+). The minim

Pre-Columbian, Peru (south coast), probably Middle Nazca, Phase 5, ca. 450 to 550 CE. One of the most striking vessels I've seen from the Nazca! A kero (quero), a cup in the form of a trophy head with

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1000 to 1200 CE. A silver kero or drinking vessel hammered into a beaker shape with a flat base and flaring sides with a handsome visage created in repousse embellishin