Colima Pottery Flute w/ Ceiba Tree Spikes

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A marvelous group of four hand-built pottery flutes, each boasting a long, cylindrical form with a tapered mouthpiece. First, the longest

**Originally Listed At $450** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery double flute bearing a pair of cylindrical tubes connected along the topside. The front of

Pre-Columbian, Mexico City region, Aztec Empire, ca. 1300 to 1500 CE. A rare and beautiful musical instrument. With four finger holes, a narrow blowing hole, and a flared, conical opening end, this in

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built terracotta flute with the figure of a warrior just below the mouthpiece who wears a helmet with coi

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. The ancients of the Americas created beautiful musical instruments out of pottery, most adorned with animal or human figurines, and the indig

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, COlima Mexico, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A well-preserved ceramic flute featuring four open hole keys. It is lovely to know that people in the past valued music i

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A lovely pottery flute adorned with brown slip with the figure of a warrior just below the mouthpiece. The warrior wears a large helmet wi

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A pair of working Colima 4-hole pottery flutes. The barrel of the first is elaborately decorated with a carved anthropomorphic lizard and

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A marvelous group of four hand-built pottery flutes, each boasting a long, cylindrical form with a tapered mouthpiece. First, the longest

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Among the finest and the largest that we have ever seen, a beautiful redware vessel of an overall gourd-like form with four peyote buttons de

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A pottery flute adorned by brown slip with the figure of a ball player or warrior just below the flared mouthpie

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An interesting sculpture made from hand-molded pottery, in two pieces, one a male figure, the other a pallet/be

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An endearing pottery vessel in the form of an adorable dog lying on its side next to a bowl of hemispherical form. Enveloped in black slip, t

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Definitely a conversation starter: a hollow pottery figure that functions as a whistle and is dominated by an enormous phallus. The artist in

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A rare example of a Colima bowl bearing a band of incised glyphs around the exterior rim. The glyphs take the forms of Xs, boxes, and stepped

Pre-Columbian, West Coast Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Most flutes we see are usually very plain and almost always repaired. This fine example is neither. Straight pottery musical instrument

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built buff terracotta flute with a twin-slit mouthpiece, two tone holes, and eight finger holes for mani

**Originally Listed At $150** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A tall pottery flute with double tubes and a zoomorphic - possibly owl-shaped - mouth piece. The flute has eigh

This is an ancient reddish brown pottery vessel with a rounded base and flared rim. Purchased Sotheby's Sale 5937 11/20/1989 Lot 418 From the Upstate New York estate of Marshall and Kay Lee. Marshall

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. An impressive ensemble of 5 hand-built pottery artifacts; 1 Colima f

Pre-Columbian, Western Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) culture, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A wonderful, hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a flute player balancing on his stomach with his legs bent at th

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fantastic ceramic whistle in the form of a ballplayer, shown wearing a heavy yoke, with the body decorated with a

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel in the shape of a portrait head. The vessel exhibits a slightly convex but stable base, a he

West Africa, Burkina Faso, Lobi peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A remarkable pottery vessel presenting a bulbous body enveloped in petite spikes in tight rows that resemble helmets of a wel