Delightful Chimu Blackware Jar in Fish Form

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A whimsical ceramic vessel in the shape of a broad-bodied fish with a human-like face, relief gills and mouth, and a projecting tail fin. A tall, conic

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A blackware stirrup jar with one half of the stirrup in the form of a perched bird. Around the upper shoulder is a repeated register of different kinds

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A beautiful mold-made blackware vessel in a characteristic avian form, with a flat and stable base, broad head, large protruding beak,

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. Molded blackware jar with a human perched atop the vessel, his face in high relief, his arms act as the handles to the jar. Beneath hi

Northern Peru, Sican/ Lambayeque to early Chimu, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. Attractive blackware jar in the form of a duck. Sitting on rounded conical base, duck's head emerges from one side, tail from the o

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu or Inca, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A delightful matte black ceramic stirrup jar with a tall spout and a tiny monkey perched against the junction between spout and handle. The bod

Pre-Columbian, Peru, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A lively blackware pottery stirrup vessel with a near-spherical body in the form of a jaguar head featuring an expressive visage with incised almond-shaped ey

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A delightful blackware whistle vessel in the form of 2 barrel-shaped chambers topped by a monkey on one side and a spout on the other. Cr

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A delightful blackware vessel in the form of a monkey laying atop a rectangular cube with a crescent-shaped crop in his forepaws. A slend

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A fantastic pair of Chimu artifacts: a grayware jar in the form of a figure bound by a coiled snake and a blackware double-chamber,

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A fantastic pair of Chimu artifacts: a grayware jar in the form of a figure bound by a coiled snake and a blackware double-chamber,

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu/Inca, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A spirited blackware pottery effigy stirrup vessel in the form of a jaguar standing squarely on all four paws with a curled tail. The wild cat's e

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A fine blackware pottery vessel of an ovoid bottle form with a pair of high relief anthropomorphic figures, perhaps caziques given their he

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A wonderful blackware jar, mold-made to present a circular body adorned with elaborate relief decoration. Sitting upon a planar base, the

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished blackware pottery jar displaying 3 registers of protruding maize ears. The he

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, central coast Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A pleasing pottery vessel adorned on one side with the relief image of a figure standing atop strai

An attractive Chimu black-ware jar, c. AD 1100 - 1450, the body with rounded carination and short neck with flared mouth and single handle; a pointed projection on the shoulder opposite. 6 x 6 in (15.

Jaime Quezada Celado (Mexican, Mata Ortiz, 20th century). Blackware pottery owl jar. Signed "Jaime Quezada C" on underside of base. A charming blackware jar in the adorable form of a seated owl by Jai

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A set of 2 hand-built blackware pottery vessels from the ancient Chimu culture. First is a stirrup vessel resting atop a flared foot with

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1250 to 1450 CE. A lovely blackware mold-made stirrup vessel, with twin lugs emerging from each side of the stirrup, and a petite relief modeled bird to the side of the

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A fabulous, mold-made pottery stirrup vessel presenting a planar base, a spherical body, and a tubular spout, all enveloped in a rich bla

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1450 CE. A mold-made blackware stirrup vessel with a fierce jaguar perched upon a rectangular prism base - the stirrup joined to the back of the wil

Back at auction due to fraudulent bidder from 6/2/2016 sale… Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1250 to 1450 CE. A lovely blackware mold-made stirrup vessel, with twin lugs emerging from each side of

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chimu culture, ca 1100 to 1400 CE. Very fine pottery stirrup vessel in blackware. Bulbous base decorated with temple step pattern and small stippled pattern many think re