Large Nazca Polychrome Portrait Vessel

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Late Nazca, Phase 6, ca. 550 to 750 CE. A delightful pottery vessel in the form of a stylized portrait head comprised of several horizontal b

Nice example with geometric designs. Peru 100BC-300AD. Chavez Estate Collection and collected prior to 1965. Possibly a Kero/Beer cup but seems large for that purpose.

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A well-crafted figural stirrup vessel depicting an animated fisherman laying atop a large net without any fish contained inside. The

**Originally Listed At $1200** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A large, hand-built pottery vessel depicting a fisherman with his head protruding from one side of the round-b

Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 300 to 500 CE. Large and amusing pottery bridge-spouted vessel in the form of a shaman intertwined with 12 snakes. On his lap are 4 snakes in sha

Large Human Head effigy vessel with a repaired crack in one of the rear quadrants. It appears the crack was just filled and otherwise the vessel is intact. Rosy Cheeks. Peru 100BC-300AD. Chavez Estate

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A truly spectacular vessel with some of the finest paint we have ever seen. This is a flaring kero (also quero) painted with the mythica

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A fine, large slip-painted terracotta vessel, of a round bottomed form with a flared rim, depicting a wide register that contains four large

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 3rd to 5th century CE. A fantastic mold-made portrait vessel showing a figure holding a large panel of woven textile with a geometric pattern. He

Pre-Columbian, Peru South Coast, Nazca culture, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A polychrome drinking vessel with its body shaped to look like a human head painted with elaborate geometric and abstract motifs. A s

Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel featuring the Anthropomorphic Mythical Being (or AMB) decorated with polychrome pigments.

**Originally Listed At $850** Pre-Columbian, Peru (south coast), probably Middle Nazca, Phase 5, ca. 450 to 550 CE. A fantastically painted, round ceramic vessel, depicting the Anthropomorphic Mythica

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, probably Phase 3 to 4, ca. 200 to 450 CE. A charming pottery vessel in the form of a bright bird that sits perkily at attention, its head up, its beak out, above a

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. A hand-built pottery cup adorned with a vibrantly colored depiction of the fierce "Anthropomorphic Mythical Being." The kero cup or bowl

**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, South Coast of Peru, Nazca, ca. 220 BCE to 125 CE. A striking polychrome vessel of an overall organic, phytomorphic form and extremely thin walls that are finely painted with six slithe

Pre-Columbian, south coast of Peru, Nazca, ca. 220 BCE to 125 CE. A hand-built polychrome vessel of a round-bottomed form with a compact spherical body and gentle shoulders leading to a brief circular

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel adorned with a vibrantly colored depiction of the Anthropomorphic Mythical Being. The round-bottomed vessel exhib

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of a round-bottomed form with a narrow neck opening and a globular body that is painted with anthropomorphic figures

A fine Nazca polychrome vessel, c. AD 200 - 500, this globular stirrup bottle features two depictions of the anthropomorphic, mythical Spotted Cat. This rare type symbolically combines feline and huma

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. A petite, hand-built pottery bridge spout vessel with a pair of white-winged guan birds painted across its cream-colored exterior. The vessel's b

**Originally Listed At $800** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A large textile mantle created from tightly-woven camelid (alpaca or llama wool) fibers dyed in hues of

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a polychrome pottery drinking vessel with a face with a three-dimensional nose near the base, and a gently rounded base, made

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, ca. 125 to 250 CE. A round-bottomed polychrome pottery bowl with an elaborate decorative/iconographic program in shades of red, brown, tan, grey, and black. The slightly