Colima Redware Reclinatario - Avian Form

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery reclinatario depicting an abstract avian creature with a slender beak. The piece rests upon a broad

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An impressive hand-made pottery reclinatario with one side in the form an abstract zoomorph, perhaps a dolphin, a fish, or a bird, with a hug

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A beautiful Colima redware vessel presenting a gadrooned squash or melon-shaped body supported by three avian legs, each bird positioned upwa

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. An adorable redware ceramic effigy whistle depicting a sweet bird. Avian forms were embraced in the Pre-Columbian world as sky animals that c

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Reclinatorios such as this were used by individuals of high rank to support their heads and backs when seated. The iconography of this form i

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A beautiful Colima redware vessel presenting a gadrooned squash or melon-shaped body supported by three avian legs, each bird positioned upwa

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Reclinatorios such as this were used by individuals of high rank to support their heads and backs when seated or reclining. The hybridized ic

Ancient Pre-Columbian, Colima, Mexican Ceramic Pottery Redware Vessel, circa 100 BCE to 250 CE, in the form of a head with rectangular ears and donning a headdress with incised geometric decoration, t

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A splendid and sizable pottery jar presenting a unique, carinated form with a narrow, planar base and impressively thin walls that dramatical

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A remarkable hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel with a round but stable base, a wide hip, a dramatic carination, a sloping should

**Originally Listed at $450** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A very large redware pottery vessel depicting four gourds, its globular body magnificently modeled with these organic s

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A remarkable hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel with a round but stable base, a wide hip, a dramatic carination, a sloping should

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built terracotta flute in the form of a sinuous, slithering serpent with applied details and four pitch or sound holes. In the Pre-Col

**Originally Listed At $350** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 300 to 700 CE. An attractive ensemble of 4 pottery vessels, all enveloped in vibrant red slip. First,

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Guanacaste, ca. 800 to 1500 CE. A finely handbuilt redware tripod vessel of an endearing avian form with applied wings and tail. Note how the birdy's head,

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built and highly-burnished pottery vessel of a large form with a rounded base, a wide, tapering body with two projecting elements, and

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel enveloped in a umber-red slip, with rounded nodules protruding slightly from the surface. Th

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Post-Classic period, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. An attractive redware vessel boasting a unique form with a horizontal band of protruding nod

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A finely hand built Colima redware vessel in the form of a duck, very large in scale with rich color and a wonderfully burnished finished. Ta

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A beautiful hand-built pottery turtle vessel with a highly-burnished surface, lustrous red slip coating, and wonderful z

Lot consisting of Pre-Columbian style figural pottery, including a Colima style redware vessel in the form of a dog (6 3/4" H x 5 1/2" W x 10 1/4" L); a vase in the form of a standing old woman, arms

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE to 300 CE. A most unusual Colima redware vessel presenting a gadrooned squash form body supported by three shaman figures, each one wearing a horned hea

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Chupicuaro, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built redware pottery bowl of an intriguing avian form that rests upon three hollow rattle legs. The ovo

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. This brilliant vermillion pottery vessel is in the form of a wide, voluminous squash with a body that is stylistically segmented with smooth, fine ve