Chancay Pottery Whistling Stirrup Jar, ex-Sotheby's PB

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1200 to 1400 CE. A wonderful, naturalistic depiction of a long-beaked bird standing atop a spotted eel. A tall, thin spout rises from the middle of the eel's

Pre-Columbian, central coast of Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. This is a double-bodied whistle vessel with pedestal feet, circular bodies, wide strap handle, tall tapering spout, one side

Originally listed at $950... Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A hand-built pottery stirrup vessel presenting a pair of upright, discoid chambers resting upon fl

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 CE. A musical whistling bridge-spouted, double-chambered vessel adorned in a hue of pale yellow. Mold-made, the fascinating vessel features two circul

**Originally Listed At $950** Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1000 CE. A musical whistling bridge-spouted stirrup vessel created by the Chancay culture. This example features a

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Viru, ca. 300 BCE to 100 CE. A Viru bichrome whistling vessel in the form of a sweet monkey or transitioning dwarf/shaman with simian features, an arched tubular bridg

Height: 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm.) Circa 1200-1100 B.C., Late Helladic period Ex. J. Bowman collection, Massachusetts, 1960's The handles and body of this jar are painted with a light brown slip, contras

**Originally Listed At $750** Ancient Southeast Asia, Thailand, Ban Chiang, Udon Thani province, Baan Pulu people, ca. 300 BCE to 200 CE. A beautiful example of Ban Chiang pottery presenting a charact

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica to Nicaragua, Gunacaste, ca. 750 to 1000 CE. Important seated pottery female painted in vibrant geometric patterns, holding her hands to her hips with truncated legs and ampl

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Vicus, ca. 300 to 500 CE. Globular bodied vessel with a spout opposite a seated pan pipe player figure; both joined by a bridge handle. Traces of umber resist desig

344. Description: Peru, Ca 1000 to 1200 CE Small storage jar nicely decorated. 6” x 6”. Provenance: Ex Brining Collection, collected some 40 years ago. Condition: Ware as expected, but generally i

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A delightful pottery, double-chambered stirrup vessel featuring an intricately formed cacique and still producing a high-pitched whistl

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chavin, ca. 900 to 200 BCE. One of the earliest types of stirrup vessel, from the "Classic Chavin" period, as it represents the early mono-colored stirrup vessels found in the mou

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche IV (Classic Period), ca. 550 to 650 CE. A large-chambered stirrup vessel with a wide spout, a stirrup handle that flares out as it meets the body of the vessel, and a flat b

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. Large and quite wonderful pottery stirrup vessel. In generally circular form with front molded with slightly raised shoulders and squared lower

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche II, ca. 300 to 400 CE. This elegant vessel portrays a spotted duck, skillfully modeled and decorated with a bichrome red and cream finish and textured wings and

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche/Mochica, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A polychrome whistling stirrup vessel with one of the two bowls in the form of a standing parrot, its realistic curved beak partially

**Originally Listed At $1250** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche I, ca. 100 to 200 CE. A figural stirrup vessel in the form of a conical-headdressed warrior. The warrior is kneeling, and wears a

Two Mycenaean pottery stirrup jars Circa 1400-1300 B.C. The larger piriform example tapering towards the base, the shoulder decorated with a flowerhead and radiating petals, the body with encircling

India, 3rd-5th century AD. Of ovoid form, the sloping shoulder decorated with a band of 23 seal impressed plaques depicting equestrian figures, pairs of rampant animals in combat, and pairs of single

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, Central Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 10th to 12th CE. An exceptionally large, hand-built, polychrome effigy vessel, perhaps a burial urn, depicting a seated male figure holding a pedestaled

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Moche II, ca. 300 to 400 CE. Very attractive pottery stirrup vessel - jar used to store water and chicha with the spout shaped so it can be attached to one's belt. Vessel

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Pacific Slope region, Teotihuacan culture, Escuintla type, Classic Period, ca. 450 to 650 CE. A stunning incensario used to burn copal incense, presented in the form of a Teotih