Zapotec Blackware Vessel, Feline Paw Form, TL Tested

**Originally Listed At $1200** Pre-Columbian, Central Mexico, Las Bocas, Olmec, ca. 700 to 300 BCE. A delightful ceramic vessel in the form of an endearing duck. The duck sits upon its petite feet, wh

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec culture, Monte Alban III, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A magnificent ceramic vessel in the form of a seated god, Cocijo or Cociyo, the god of rain and lightning, wearing a

Pre-Columbian, North Central Peru, Chimu/Inca, ca. 1470 to 1523 CE. A lively blackware pottery vessel with a near-spherical body and a flared spout, the body in the form of a jaguar head featuring an

Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro Civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery vessel depicting a pair of abstract large felines on the body, perhaps representing

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, ca. early to mid 2nd millennium BCE. A hand-built blackware pottery pitcher exhibiting a round but stable base, a carinated

**Originally Listed At $1000** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A fascinating black stirrup vessel depicting the mythical episode of the hero deity, Ai Apaec, fight

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican / Lambayeque culture, ca. 1000 to 1350 CE. A striking hand-built blackware pottery vessel on a corseted foot bearing a register of impressed stepped and triangul

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Bronze Age, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A blackware kernos or ritualistic altar vessel, the voluminous body resting on a flared

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1450 CE. A wonderful blackware vessel with an expressive jaguar handle - the wild feline's paws joining neck to shoulder, its arched back adorned wi

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. A blackware vessel with a tall, wide central spout on a zoomorphic base of four stout animorphic legs ending in paws. On each side large j

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, central coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A hand-built grayware pottery jar of a broad form. The vessel features a ring-shaped foot with dozens of incised notches, a spherical bod

Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 150 to 650 CE. A stunning openwork pottery leg of a vessel of rectangular form featuring a central figure, perhaps a priest, standing in a temple. The

Near East, Iran, Achaemenid Empire, ca. 550 to 330 BCE. A terracotta rhyton (ceremonial drinking or libation vessel) in the form of a boot with curved toe in the form of a skillfully delineated mythol

Fired clay. Pre-Columbian America, Chimu, approx. 13th cent. (TL-tested) A unique and rare vessel incorporating animal form, showing the creature as it is giving birth to an offspring! The animal, pre

Ancient Near East, Holy Land, Canaanite, Bronze Age, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. An impressive pottery vessel in the form of a bull presenting a cylindrical, horizontal body atop a pair of slender, strip-fo

**Originally Listed At $550** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A hand-built blackware pottery vessel in the form of a seated feline, perhaps representative of a fie

Chimu Blackware Feline Vessel Ca. 1000-1250 A.D. Chimu.. Size 5 1/8 inches high. A small blackware zoomorphic bottle with small perforated lug handles, depicting a feline eating, with both paws held t

POSSIBLY PRE COLUMBIAN PERUVIAN DEER FORM STIRRUP VESSEL DEPICTING DEER WITH STIRRUP SHAPED HANDLE - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (THIS PIECE HAS NOT BEEN TL TESTED FOR AUTHENTICITY)

East Asia, Japan, Middle to Late Jomon Period, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base. The exterior walls are adorned by incised paralle

East Asia, Japan, Middle to Late Jomon period, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A large hand-built pottery vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base and flared rim. The cylindrical exterior walls are textured

East Asia, Japan, Middle to Late Jomon Period, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base. The exterior walls are adorned by incised paralle

**First Time At Auction** South Asia, Indus Valley, Harrapan/Mohenjo Daro, ca. 2200 to 1800 BCE. A lovely, thin-walled wheel-thrown pottery vessel of a bulbous form on a petite flat foot, finely decor