Nazca Polychrome Portrait Kero, Abstract Ornamentation

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Late Nazca, Phase 6, ca. 550 to 750 CE. A delightful pottery vessel in the form of a stylized portrait head comprised of several horizontal b

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. Nazca pottery kero decorated in shades of red, white, black and brown with repeating "net" pattern over alternating bands of red and brown. Very

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A truly spectacular vessel with some of the finest paint we have ever seen. This is a flaring kero (also quero) painted with the mythica

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery kero (also quero) presenting gorgeous abstract zoomorphic motifs across the elongated piriform body. The vessel features a round but

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 BCE to 125 CE. A wonderful, thin-walled pottery vessel, painted with an abstract textile-inspired pattern of interlocking snakes delineated in red and c

Pre-Columbian, Peru South Coast, Nazca culture, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A polychrome drinking vessel with its body shaped to look like a human head painted with elaborate geometric and abstract motifs. A s

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

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. A wonderful pottery kero presenting a corseted body and tall, flared neck that leads to a broad rim, all sitting u

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. An impressive pottery kero presenting a rounded base and tall walls that taper inwards to a circular rim, all meticulously hand-painted in hues of burnt

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. 300 to 500 CE. A fine, slip-painted terracotta vessel, of a round bottomed form with a flared rim, depicting a wide register that contains two depictions of

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

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. An attractive pottery kero adorned with a hand-painted motif of a vertically undulating band resembling a snake in hues of black, burnt orang

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 to 540 CE. A wonderful polychrome terracotta kero (also spelled quero, qero, qiru) vessel boasting an impressively painted iconographical program, the e

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 1 to 700 CE. A tall ceramic drinking cup or kero of a tall and undulating form, extensively decorated with registers comprised of figural motifs in hues of

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A fabulous pottery vessel of unique form displaying a conical body and wide, annular rim sitting upon a flared foot with a flat, circ

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Southern Coast of Peru, Early Nazca, Phase 4, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. A striking kero boasting impressively painted labyrinthian body of the anthropomorphic

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built pottery kero with highly burnished surfaces painted with vibrant polychrome pigments. The vessel features a round but stable bas

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 300 to 600 CE. A hand-built pottery kero or bowl of a broad form resting on a rounded but stable base with slanted walls, and a deep basin with stone-burnis

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, 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, South Peru, ca. 125 to 250 CE. A Nazca ceramic kero rising from a round-bottomed base, its elegant silhoutte displaying a soft curve on the lower body. The surface decoration is organiz

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca to early Huari, ca 400 to 600 CE. A very strange little pottery cup! With rounded base, distinct corseted middle and flaring rim, painted in red, black, tan and bro

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, 400 to 700 CE. This is a kero (drinking cup) made of wood by the Nazca. It is decorated with delicate painted crested white herons of varying sizes. Nazca wooden a