Nazca Painted Earthenware Trophy Head Vessel

CYLINDER VASE WITH TROPHY HEADS, painted ceramic vessel, 4” tall, 4 ½” diameter, estimated for auction by Sotheby’s in 1997 for $500-800. From the collection of Selma & Herbert Moskowitz.

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 1 to 700 CE. A vibrant hand-built earthenware olla of a round-bottomed piriform shape, extensively decorated with a mesmerizing re

Beautiful ancient ceramic vessel with various painted motifs representing spirits, trophy heads and a feline deity. Nazca culture 200 BC - 600 AD, Southern Peru, South America. The Vessel has been re-

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, probably Phase 6 or 7, ca. 600 BCE to 800 CE. A fantastic example of an earthenware canteen with bright, clear iconography painted on one of its faces. This depicts

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

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A fabulous ceramic "trophy head" vessel with a round but stable base, gently tapering walls, a deep int

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, Ca. 125 to 250 BCE. A polychrome terracotta vessel with thin walls and a rounded bottom, adorned with a register of abstract trophy head variants in hues of red

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A remarkable pottery "trophy head" vessel featuring a bulbous body that tapers to a brief neck and a flared, annula

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 400 CE. Polychrome Nazca Kero in Trophy Head Form. A flared vessel in the form of a trophy head with a relief nose and wearing a tump-line headband o

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca and Inca cultures, ca. 180 BCE to 500 CE and ca. 1400 CE, respectively. A nice trio of ceramics from ancient Peru, including a miniature trophy head vessel modeled with a po

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 to 540 CE. An interesting Nazca head jar, the lower portion of the vessel of a rounded form resolving to a sharply constricted upper end below a gently

Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel featuring the Anthropomorphic Mythical Being (or AMB) decorated with polychrome pigments.

Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE; Central Coast of Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A nice set of 2 hand-built pottery vessels from ancient Peru. First is a petite Nazca v

Pre-Columbian, Peru (south coast), probably Middle Nazca, Phase 5, ca. 450 to 550 CE. One of the most striking vessels I've seen from the Nazca! A kero (quero), a cup in the form of a trophy head with

Pre-Columbian, Nazca Culture, Peru, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a deep pottery bowl with a rounded body and a wide, flaring rim. It is painted with repeated trophy heads and geometric faces on its exte

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A polychrome pottery drinking vessel (kero) with a slightly corseted body, a flaring rim, and a gently rounded base. Around the exter

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery drinking vessel known as a kero (also quero) with a band of co

Peru, central coast SA, Circa 100 to 400 AD. Nicely rendered in bold colors with feline headed deity spread across vessel and holding a trophy head bounty. He wears a garment across body with a lovely

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca culture, probably Phase 6 or 7, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A fantastic example of an earthenware vessel with bright, clear iconography painted on both faces, a highly-burni

Stirrup vessel with head of warrior and painted gods decoration. C 200BCE - 600CE. Dimensions; H 4.5" X Diam 5" Condition: Tight crack around body. some surface paint loss.

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, Peru, ca. 250 to 540 CE. Small but mighty, this little bowl boasts an impressively painted iconographical program, the exterior walls with a wide regist

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 125 to 250 CE. A thin-walled, round-bottomed bowl, hand-painted with a smiling faced anthropomorphic being superimposed by a zoomorphic trophy head taster o

Terracotta with painting, Nazca, Peru. ca. 4th to 6th cent. Around the exterior of this red cup with outwardly curved walls and a wide mouth are two painted rows composed of over thirty trophies’ he

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 to 540 CE. A polychrome flared round bottomed kero with extremely thin walls that present an intricately painted iconographic program. The uppermost reg