Fine Inca Polychrome Urpu / Aryballos

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1438 to 1533 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished vessel known as an urpu (also called an aryballos) with a conical base, a nearly spherical body with a rounde

**Originally Listed At $600** Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1438 to 1533 CE. An aryballos-shaped pottery vessel known as an urpu, hand-built and painted with polychrome pigments. The bell-sh

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1438 to 1533 CE. A hand-built, aryballos-shaped pottery vessel known as an urpu that presents with a series of vertical, red-painted bands across the obverse. T

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1400 to 1532 CE. An extensively decorated polychrome vessel called an aryballos due to its similarities to Greek vessels of this s

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1400 to 1532 CE. An extensively decorated polychrome pottery vessel called an aryballos due to its similarities to Greek vessels of this shape, but also known a

Pre-Columbian, Central Peru, Inca, ca. 1470 CE. A figural effigy jar with a quintessentially aryballoid body, a strap handle that joins rim to shoulder, and a polychrome finish of red, yellow, chocola

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 1470 to 1532 CE. An elegant and refined ceramic aryballos (pouring vessel) with an interesting, stepped base, a rounded body that tapers to a narrow, cylindrical

Pre-Columbian Quimbaya culture (Colombia, 100 BCE-700 CE). A fine polychrome pottery aryballos, decorated with sophisticated negative-resist geometrics in black and red in stratified bands runni

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1438 to 1533 CE. An exemplary aryballos-shaped pottery vessel known as an urpu, hand-built and painted with hues of burnt sienna, grey, and black on a light ora

**Originally Listed At $350** Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1200 to 1532 CE. A hand-built vessel known as an urpu or an aryballos with a broad, piriform body atop a petite base, a pair of st

Rare and Fine Inca Period Quipu Recording Tool. A quipu consisted of a series of cotton or camelid fiber strings used to store numeric and other data encoded in knots. The Inca people used them for co

Greece, Corinth, ca. late 7th to early 6th century BCE. A charming and sizable wheel-thrown pottery aryballos - used to store large quantities of perfumes or other scented oils - with a round but stab

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Inca, ca. 1438 to 1533 CE. A classic Inca hand-built and highly decorated polychrome vessel that is truly FABULOUS! The rounded body is finely painted with a wide regi

**Originally Listed At $4000** Pre-Columbian, central highlands of Peru, Inca culture, ca. 1350 to 1500 CE. A massive textile tunic composed of two broad camelid fiber panels that are dyed in an attra

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Inca, ca. 1438 to 1533 CE. A classic Inca hand-built and highly decorated polychrome vessel that is truly FABULOUS! The rounded body is finely painted with a wide regi

15th-16th century A.D. A very large wooden kero decorated using pigmented resin inlay to depict a frieze of figures and birds within panels created by ribbons radiating from masks, medial band of geom

c.6th century B.C. A piriform aryballos with winged panther, ovoid in shape with flattened bottom containing a central circular depression, the neck narrow with wide flat rim and small pierced handle;

A very fine polychrome carved sculpture of the head of Christ, depicting Him as "The Man of Sorrows" - His suffering and pain are obvious from the detailed carvings and He is likely near death. Probab

Pre-Columbian, Peru, ca. 1400 to 1500 CE. Wonderfully painted wooden chicha cup decorated in vibrant shades of red, yellow, green and tan. Showing a continuous narrative scene of everyday life includi

Greece, Corinth, Corinthian culture, ca. first half of the 6th century BCE. A delightful pottery aryballos hand-painted with 2 confronting roosters divided by a pair of flowers, all in black and maroo

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu / Inca culture, ca. 1200 to 1400 CE. A lovely hand-built pottery vessel with a flat base, cylindrical body, a planar shoulder, an arching stirrup-shaped handle,

Fine Inca Alabaster Bleating Llama Canopa. Cavity in the back for blessing ingredients such as llama tallow. Size: 3.5'' x 5.5'' x 2.75'' (9 x 14 x 7 cm). Ex. Cathryn Cootner Estate Collection, Sonoma

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A polychrome pottery vessel of spondylus shells on pedestal bases with two long neck spouts. The vessel's main body, the shells, are connected

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. Three finely hand built, slipped, and burnished highly decorated plates of identical designs featuring central registers containing striations and x-sha