Pre-columbian Costa Rican Grinding Bowl

Pre-columbian Tripod bowl from Costa Rica, ca. 1000-1400 A.D. Redware bowl sitting on top of three legs with each leg having a figure. Nice example! notes:All lots will be sold with a COA guaranteeing

Polychrome bowl with red snake-like designs to interior on creamy white slip, with three rattle legs, two of these joined by snake-like arms to an animal head centered between these two legs. Restorat

Ancient Pre-Columbian, Costa Rican Pottery Tripod Bowl c.500 to 700 AD. Size 5 inches high. 7 inches wide. A Costa Rican pottery tripod bowl with rattle legs, handle with face. decorated with ornate d

COSTA RICA, 500-1000 AD A fine example of a Pre-Columbian Costa Rican tripod rattle foot bowl. The bowl is beautifully decorated with polychrome scenes of native life. The bowl stands on three bird he

Description: Two Pre Columbian era pieces: 1. Costa Rican pottery bowl with tripod base in red. 2. Small red clay cylinder jaron or drink vessel with spout and handles, most likely from Mexico 3 x 4 x

Precolumbian, Costa Rican Stone Effigy Pestle, 6" Tall - Grinding Face Shows Use

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 800 to 1500 CE | A fine glazed pottery bowl with a grand bulbous body with walls that curve inward over a deep basin, all supported by 3 ribbon-form loo

Pre-columbian Costa Rican Jaguar Fragment, ca. 1000-1500 A.D. This would have been one of the legs off of a tripod bowl. 4-13/16" in length.

TOAD WHISTLE, painted ceramic, 2 ½ x 4 ¼ x 5 ½”, estimated for auction by Sotheby’s in 1997 for $400-500; A painted ceramic bowl, 2 5/8” tall, 6 ¼” diameter. Both from the collection of Se

A fine and impressive Pre-Columbian ceremonial stone metate (grinding stone) from ancient Costa Rica. This example is of the Greater Nicoya type, dating to Period IV, circa 1 A.D. – 500 A.D. Measure

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. A large bichrome vessel of a complex design, the exterior walls of the bowl incised with a repeated diamond motif - reminiscent of snake skin - and furth

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. A unique redware cup presenting a flared foot and an openwork leg adorned with a horizontal ring of 12 outward-facing avian animals. A trio of pillars ri

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A charming red on black negative resist olla boasting lovely stylized geometric motifs on the dramatically corseted shoulder and lower sect

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. Hand-carved from a single piece of grey volcanic stone, this is a large ceremonial metate and accompanying round-edged grinding stone

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 1000 CE. A charming small bowl atop a jaguar back, all hand sculpted from pottery and elaborately painted in the unique Costa Rican style. The body of the jaguar is a ra

Costa Rican Pre-Columbian polychrome pottery round footed bowl. Measures 9" wide 5.5" tall.

Pre-Columbian, Guanacaste Costa Rica / Nicaragua, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A hand painted pottery pedestal vessel supported by tripod rattle feet showing distinct Mayan influence. The body of the vessel is

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 1500 CE. A deep bowl standing on low-slung, zoomorphic, tripod legs. These are each the form of an armadillo, with long noses and pointed ears; t

Pre-Columbian, northwestern Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya, Middle / Late Polychrome periods, ca. 800 to 1550 CE. A beautiful, highly-burnished tripod vessel comprised of three abstract zoomorphic fe

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, probably Nicoya area, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A set of 2 hand-built pottery vessels from ancient Costa Rica, a large bowl and a double

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Greater Nicoya, ca. 300 to 800 CE. An elegant pottery tripod vessel comprised of a shallow bowl with a flared rim and a trio of tapered legs. E

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. An attractive polychrome tripod bowl decorated on the interior with concentric bands of curvilinear motifs painted in black on cream slip against a red g

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 1100 to 1500 CE. A petite zoomorphic pottery bowl with a shallow dish, three conical legs, and an amusing primate head which projects outwards

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. An adorable bichrome terracotta vessel with three looped feet, each with an abstract amphibian body, supporting the larger superstructure above. The main