Macabre Moche Pottery Stirrup Vessel - Bird Eats Man

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche III, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A mold-made greyware stirrup vessel with matching relief scenes depicting a bird of prey eating a human victim, one on each side. The bird is most li

**Originally Listed At $1800** Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, El Moro de Peten, Moche, Phase V, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel of carinated form atop a petite

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, 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, 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, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 400 CE. An evocative double chambered vessel, featuring a thin, tall stirrup handle and spout, one gourd-shaped chamber, and another figural chamb

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Sican / Lambayeque valley, ca. 800 to 1100 CE. A rare pottery stirrup jar showing strong Moche influence. The male figure sits with hands placed upon upraised knees, lean

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

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche III to IV, ca. 400 to 600 CE. "Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love!" In the context

A pottery stirrup vessel with birds. Northern Peru, CE800-1200. 8"h. Provenance: The Alvin M. Cohen Collection, Bethesda MD.

Chavin, North Coast Peru, 1200-500 BC. Early Man Musical Stirrup Vessel, having bird whistle on handle and complicated incised glyphs. 6" high, 5 1/2" diam. Surface wear, glaze losses. Provenance: H.J

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Moche, Phase III, ca. 300 to 600 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery stirrup vessel depicting a dignified if not noble man kneeling with hands placed neat

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, Moche I period, ca. 100 to 550 CE. An amazing mold-made pottery stirrup vessel in the form of an old man The stirrup eme

**Originally Listed At $600** Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Moche V, 600 to 800 CE. A mold-made figural stirrup vessel in the form of a seated man wearing a poncho and holding a small animal und

**Originally Listed at $500** Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, Moche I period, ca. 100 to 550 CE. An amazing mold-made pottery stirrup vessel in the form of an old man The stirrup eme

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A marvelous pottery stirrup vessel displaying the form of a seated shaman in the process of transforming into a bird. Adorned in

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche culture, Moche III, ca. 450 to 600 CE. Wonderful pottery stirrup vessel painted in shades of brick-red and off-white. Procession of standing sea birds walk along co

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 550 CE. A splendid hand-built pottery stirrup vessel with a bichrome finish in hues of umber and cream that displays a fascinating avian ic

**Originally Listed At $1500** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche 4, classic period, ca. 400 to 500 CE. Perfect for any fan of the macabre - a bichrome pottery effigy stirrup vessel representing t

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche, Phase V, ca. 650 to 850 CE. A delightful pottery of stirrup vessel in the form of a seated figure, likely a lord or shaman, dressed elaborately with a plumed headd

Group of Peruvian Pottery. Including a stirrup jar with Moche style bird decoration, a figural vessel with a jaguar-form handle, and a vessel signed: Ernesto Camacho, '74, Chulucanas. Size: ranging fr

Pottery head vessel having a stirrup type spout, depicting a dignitary wearing a horned headdress with side wing-like appendages. The mans face is painted with a star-like pattern. Similar horns can b

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, Peru, Moche IV, ca. 100 CE to 500 CE. Bichrome terracotta stirrup vessel depicting a sitting drummer, most likely a shaman, wearing a bird head mask with tear rolling down his cheeks, h