PERU JAGUAR POTTERY CONTAINER

Chinu, Peru, circa 1200 AD. Incised decoration on cylindrical form. 8" x 4 1/2" diam.

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Trujillo, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 400 to 500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery jaguar of immense size and form with hollow legs, a curled tail, a massive s

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Wari / Huari culture, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. What a fun vessel - unless of course you were the poor man getting eaten by the jaguar! Large pottery jar in the form of a crouching jagu

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase III to IV, ca. 350 to 650 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a stylized jaguar laying recumbent with all four legs tucked alongside its muscul

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A remarkable pottery vessel in the form of a spotted snake with the head of a jaguar. The jaguar symbolized power and might throughout the Pr

Pre-Columbian, Huari/Wari culture, Peru, ca. 6th to 9th century CE. An absolutely charming ceramic vessel in the form of a jaguar, its elongated body forming much of the vessel. A huge, conical spout

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 100 to 700 CE. A fierce, mold-made pottery vessel of a seated human figure with the head of a jaguar. The jaguar has his large ears perked upwards

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche Culture, ca. 100 to 500 CE. A well-preserved wooden ceremonial lime container known as a poporo, in an anthropomorphic form with a separate stopper featuring a j

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, Peru, Chimu/Inca, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A spirited blackware pottery effigy stirrup vessel in the form of a jaguar standing squarely on all four paws with a curled tail. The wild cat's e

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A hand-built and modeled bichrome pottery trumpet depicting a ferocious, open-mouthed jaguar head bearing sharp fangs and staring ahead with

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 500 to 800 CE. A very cute pottery bridge spouted vessel in the form of a "fierce" jaguar. Jaguars were both revered and feared by many of the S

Back at auction due to fraudulent bidder from 6/2/2016 sale… Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 500 to 800 CE. A very cute pottery bridge spouted vessel in the form of a "fierc

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 400 to 600 CE. Roar! A wonderful pottery stirrup vessel depicting a fierce jaguar with a rippled coat, a long curled tail, an expressive visage comprised of

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel depicting a jaguar seated on thick haunches at it rears up its head and torso to hold both f

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Chavin, late Cupisnique, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. An exquisite, hand-built pottery vessel featuring a spherical body with a flat base, highly burnished surfaces, and a stir

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A skillfully executed, hand-built pottery stirrup vessel portraying a seated shaman with knees drawn up and holding a scepter in his right ha

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Vicús culture, ca. 200 BCE to 600 CE. This is a double vessel with a narrow spout on one side, a strap handle between the two bulbous bottoms, and a seated jaguar perched atop th

**Originally Listed At $250** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche / Chimu, ca. 1000 to 1470 CE. A pottery jar with a human head with low relief facial features forming the bottle neck, and both sid

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A mold-made blackware pottery stirrup vessel with a bulbous body, round shoulders decorated with low-relief stipp

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A fine blackware pottery vessel of an ovoid bottle form with a pair of high relief anthropomorphic figures, perhaps caziques given their he

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

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, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A charming blackware stirrup vessel in the form of a seated Chimu lord holding a petite feline, likely a jaguar. The figure gazes forward