Michoacan Pottery Zoomorphic Ocarina

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Michoacan, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A burnished blackware ocarina representing an animal of questionable identity - Is it a turtle? Perhaps an armadillo? Or my favorite interpretation

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A lovely pair of two hand-built pottery ocarinas exhibiting abstract zoomorphic forms. First is a redware pottery o

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, ca. 100 BCE. A hand-built anthropomorphic bowl with linear decorations incised along its exterior. A deep, flared, bowl sits atop a four-legged anthropoidal figu

(7) PRE-COLUMBIAN POTTERY OCARINAS - Zoomorphic Whistles in terra cotta, some with remnants of pigment, Nicoya peoples, Costa Rica, circa 500-1000 AD, depicting birds, rodents, a chipmunk and an armad

**Originally Listed At $200** Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Carchi-Narino Highlands, Narino culture, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A charming set of two hand-built pottery ocarinas with rounded bases, oblong bodies,

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, Protoclassic Period, ca. 500 to 100 BCE. A fascinating pottery spoon rich with pre-Columbian zoomorphic iconography with the heads of 2

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Michoacan, ca. 1350 to 1521 CE. A lovely ensemble of 5 hand-built pottery ocarinas, each with a projecting mouth pi

**Originally Listed At $150** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Bahia, Guangala, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. A hand-built greyware ocarina depicting a zoomorphic form with sound holes perforating its arched 'back' a

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Bahia, Guangala, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. A hand-built greyware ocarina depicting a zoomorphic form with sound holes perforating its arched 'back' and l

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. Three delightful ceramic musical instruments - two ocarinas and one rattle - of zoomorphic form. Two are highly abstract, while the third is a crocodilia

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Guanajuato Valley, Chupicuaro, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A handsome pottery bowl featuring a wide rim and shallow basin enveloped in meticulously painted decoration in hues of

Fine Pre-Columbian pottery ocarina or pipe, Probably c. 1000-500 BCE, carved with fine detail, surmounted by a reclining effigy, on custom acrylic museum mount, 2.25"h x 2.25"l x 1.5"w (excl. stand) P

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Manabi, Bahia culture, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. A mold-made pottery ocarina in the form of a standing figure atop fused legs, with a mouthhole atop the bulbous head, and keyholes

Southeast Asia, Thailand, Sawankhalok or Sukhothai, Ayutthaya Period, ca. 17th to early 18th century CE. A beautiful stoneware teapot with floral patterns and a zoomorphic spout. The globular vessel r

**Originally Listed At $1200** Ancient Near East / Central Asia, northwestern Iran, Amlash culture, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A hand-built pottery vessel with a body composed of an abstract quadruped stand

100% of the Buyer's Premium of all lots sold in this auction will be donated to Community Food Share by Artemis Gallery. $1.00 = 3 meals! **First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, southern Mexico to

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Sinu Valley, Sinu culture, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A beautiful pendant formed by cast-85.73% gold (equivalent to over 20 karats) over pottery and displaying the form of 2 zoomorp

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, ca. 1350 to 1521 CE. A fabulous hand-built olla with a planar base, a gradually-widening body, a large rounded shoulder, and a tall flared rim. The highly-burnis

Pre-Columbian, Caribbean/Florida, Taino people, ca. 15th century CE. A fascinating piece of abstract hollow pottery, a flat-bottomed stamp with a thickly incised design on its base, and a zoomorphic s

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, ca. 100 BCE. A striking bowl with a wide body and acutely-angled shoulder. Around the shoulder are repeated motifs of serpent- or l

Pre-Columbian Rare Jalisco Pottery Ocarina -2 Frogs, 300 BCE - 300 CE. The ancient musical wind instrument, a type of vessel flute in the form a large frog supporting a smaller frog, either hitching a

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, Protoclassic Period, ca. 300 BCE. An impressive pottery jar boasting a unique, trilobed form with a flattened base and towering walls that rise to a trefoil-shap

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Michoacan, Protoclassic Period, ca. 500 to 100 BCE. A hand-built pottery 'pretty lady' figure boasting a voluptuous, hourglass body adorned elaborate ornaments and liberal

A RARE 19TH CENTURY TURKISH OTTOMAN CANAKKALE GLAZED POTTERY ZOOMORPHIC EWER, with large relief moulded foliate decoration, 43cm high.