Mayan Polychrome Tripod Plate, ex-Arte Primitivo

Pre-Columbian, Highlands (Chiapas, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), Maya Late Classic Period, ca. 600 CE. A flare-rimmed dish standing on three short legs, with a central portrait head i

Pre-Columbian, Maya Territories, ca. 200 to 900 CE. A green-grey volcanic stone metate (metlatl) with sturdy tripod legs and a head that - combined with the stiff back - calls to mind a turtle or poss

Pre-Columbian, Highlands (Chiapas, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), Maya Late Classic Period, ca. 600 CE. A large orangeware plate with rounded tripod legs. The interior center of the bo

Pre-Columbian, Highlands (Chiapas, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador), Maya Late Classic Period, ca. 600 CE. A large orangeware plate with rounded tripod legs. The interior center of the bo

Pre-Columbian, Mayan Territories, Late Classic, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A bright and iconographically rich polychrome plate with the god Chaac (Chac, Chaahk) depicted in tondo, on an orange background, sur

Pre-Columbian, Mayan Territories, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A finely painted polychrome terracotta plate standing upon three pointed feet, its tondo magnificently decorated in the center with the visage of a

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A polychrome, decorated terracotta kero or drinking vessel of a gracefully tapered form, painted on each side with an abstract frontally po

Pre-Columbian, Central Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. An impressive anthropomorphic vessel, most likely used at ceremonial feasts given its elaborate decoration. The Huari/Wari culture used art

**Back at auction due to non-paying bidder** Pre-Columbian, Central Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. An impressive anthropomorphic vessel, most likely used at ceremonial feasts given its elaborat

Mayan 500-800BC Massive fanged jaguar head tenon carved in dark gray volcanic stone. Coiled tongue with remnants of red cinnabar pigment - measures15.5" x 6.5" x 7"

**Originally Listed At $3500** Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 850 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of an elegant form with a flat base, a carinated lowe

**Originally Listed At $350** Pre-Columbian, southern Mexico and northern Central America, Mayan Territories, Late Classic period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A huge, unusually-shaped and well-preserved double

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Mayan Territories, Late Classic, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A smooth greenstone maskette pendant in the form of a human head with drilled eyes, an open mouth as if spe

Pre-Columbian, South Peru, ca. 125 to 250 CE. A Nazca ceramic kero rising from a round-bottomed base, its elegant silhoutte displaying a soft curve on the lower body. The surface decoration is organiz

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, ca. 1400 CE. A very finely potted stirrup vessel. Redware pottery "beer" bottle in the form of a native gourd. Long stem in added white with black stipples down top and t

Pre-Columbian, Jaina/Campeche Mexico, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 600 to 850 CE. A charming example of the molded pottery figures made on Jaina Island in the Yucatan. This hollow ceramic figure sta

Pre-Columbian, southern Mexico and Guatemala, Maya Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A massive ceramic tripod plate with rich, strongly-painted, black-outlined motifs. In tondo is an absolutely

Pre-Columbian Mayan Incised Bowl. Guatemala, 300-500 CE. Provenance: Ex. Arte Primitivo, Auction # 30, lot # 197. Ex. Collection of Allan L. Long, NYC, acquired 1970's. Size: 3.75'' x 5.75'' x 5.75''

Egypt, Late Period, Ptolemaic period, ca. 300 to 30 BCE. Openwork cartonnage aegis collar breast plate and vertical column register. Painted gesso surface in blue and red on a white ground with some b

**Originally Listed At $200** Pre-Columbian, Mayan region, Maya/Toltec, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. A "plumbate" pottery head vessel depicting a shaman or priest wearing an enormous tapir head headdress, his

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Mayan region, Maya/Toltec, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. A "plumbate" pottery head vessel depicting a shaman or priest wearing an enormous tapir head headdress, his face

Pre-Columbian Mayan Polychrome Pottery Plate with Hollow Rattle Tripod Feet. Late Classic. Peten. Portrays a personified animal/spirit companion ("way") wearing a red Sacrificial scarf and headdress.

A Mayan tripod vessel with etched registers. Rattle feet. 6-1/2" H Provenance: Ex private collection, NYC

A ceramic tripod rattle bowl, with feet in shape of heads, geometric designs, on shoulder and interior. 7-1/2" dia. X 4-1/4" H Provenance; Ex. Private collection, Brooklyn, NY