A Pottery Stirrup Pouring Vessel

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A dramatic mold formed stirrup vessel depicting a predatory scene between a bird and an eel. The brownware vessel is hand built with the coil

Pre-Columbian, central/north coast Peru, Moche, Phase II, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A finely constructed pottery vessel with a large standing owl with long talons in high relief, feathers in low relief body

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Paracas, San Pedro culture, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. A charming blackware pottery stirrup vessel adorned with the highly stylized form of a falcon. Exhibiting a voluminous

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 CE. A beautiful polychrome terracotta vessel of a round-bottomed globular form with a double spouted stirrup handle, the body finely decorated with four

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche III to IV, ca. 400 to 700 CE. A hand-made and highly-burnished pottery vessel with a flat base, a bulbous body with three-dimensional features, and a stirrup-sha

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 600 BCE. A stupendous example of the early monochrome stirrup vessels found in the mountains and river valleys of northern Peru. Characteristic of the Chav

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A beautiful, hand-built polychrome vessel with a rounded base, gently rounded walls, and a pair of cylindrical spouts with a short st

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 1200 to 500 BCE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel of tall form with a bowl-shaped lower body, a detailed upper body shaped like a charming

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 700 CE. A hand-built pottery stirrup vessel depicting a pair of elaborate bird warriors. Each avian anthropoid is outfitted with a jagua

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca, ca. 1300 to 1500 CE. A remarkable pottery stirrup vessel featuring the Andean god Ai Apec as the corn god. Portrayed traditionally with feline eyes and jaguar fangs, the dei

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 700 CE. A fierce pottery stirrup vessel in the form of the head of Ai Apec (also Ai Apaec), the primary god of th

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A remarkably ornate and quite impressive pottery stirrup vessel surmounted by a seated warrior, elaborately dressed and grasping a

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche III/IV, ca. 500 to 600 CE. A wonderful and touching stirrup jar in the form of a mother sea bird (comorant) with its beak down toward the baby bird at its side whil

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca (Nasca), 300 to 700 CE. This is a stirrup vessel with two small spouts and a wide strap handle. The body of the vessel is covered in colorful painted depictions of

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Salinar culture, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. A striking ceramic stirrup vessel with a round body with flattened base, a thick stirrup handle, and a short, flaring spout

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Amlash region, Marlik culture, ca. late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A hand-built pottery pitcher of broad, apple-shaped form with a petite base and a narrow

Ancient Greece, Mycenaean, ca. 1500 BCE. A wheel-made pottery stirrup jar of a classic Mycenaean form with a bulbous body, a flat foot, conjoined twin handles, and a side spout. The vessel is hand pai

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Chavin, late Cupisnique, ca. 500 to 300 BCE. An exquisite, hand-built pottery vessel featuring a spherical body with a flat base, highly burnished surfaces, and a stir

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 700 CE. A mold-formed and highly burnished redware pottery vessel with a round but stable base, a hemispherical body surmounted by a cylind

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase I, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of squat, circular form with a compressed spherical body, a stirrup-shaped handle, and a tapered cyl

**Originally Listed At $1200** Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Salinar culture, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. A striking ceramic stirrup vessel with a round body with flattened base, a thick stirrup hand

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Lambayeque Valley, Sican-Lambayeque culture, ca. 750 to 1375 CE. A mold-formed pottery vessel with highly burnished surfaces, a flared foot, a spherical body, and a thick

DESCRIPTION: A Pre-Columbian serpent pottery ware vessel. Features a motif a coiled serpent with a spouted aperture along the middle of the body. Fitted with a Sotheby's tag number, as lot 181, but ha

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Moche V, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A classic Moche form, the stirrup vessel, with the body in the form of the transformative god Ai Apec, with a tall, black bird on one ar