Huge Egyptian Predynastic Blacktop Jar, TL Tested

Ancient Egypt, Predynastic period, late Naqada II to Naqada III, ca. 3200 to 3000 BCE. An enormous hand-built marl clay jar with a russet-hued surface made with a thin iron-oxide slip. The burnished v

Ancient Egypt, Pre-Dynastic period, Naqada, ca. 3000 BCE. A beautiful coil-formed Nile silt pottery vase with a highly-burnished exterior surface covered in a deep, earthy iron-oxide slip. The conical

Ancient Near East, northwestern Iran, Amlash, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A hand-built pottery jar of sizable form with burnished surfaces, a flat base, a flared rim, and a pair of ring handles. Amlash vesse

Ancient Near East/Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2300 to 1900 BCE. An exquisite, hand-built pottery jar of a massive size with a planar base, a spherical body with

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Intermediate to Late Bronze Age, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A splendid and quite sizable grayware jar boasting a voluminous, globular body wit

Egypt, Pre-Dynastic Period, Nagada/Naqada II, ca. 3600 to 3000 BCE. One of the most recognizable and desirable of all early Egyptian art. Pottery jar in very characteristic black-top design and red lo

East Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 907 CE. A breathtaking sancai glazed tripod vessel, its rounded walls featuring three lion or foo dog maskettes staggered with three dragons - all in low to

Ancient East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a tall, sizable form with a flat base, a cylindrical body, and a flared shoulder. The body is adorned

East Asia, Japan, Middle to Late Jomon Period, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base. The exterior walls are adorned by incised paralle

East Asia, Japan, Middle Jomon period, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. A large, deep, conical urn made using the coil method, the clay mixed by the woman who made it (women produced all ceramics in this culture

East Asia, Japan, Middle to Late Jomon period, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A large hand-built pottery vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base and flared rim. The cylindrical exterior walls are textured

East Asia, Japan, Middle to Late Jomon Period, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base. The exterior walls are adorned by incised paralle

East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 BCE. A graceful, hand-built terracotta vessel presenting a flat base, a cylindrical body, an expanding shoulder with a thick rim, and a perforated protrus

A nice Egyptian Predynastic jar, Naqada II, c. 3650 - 3500 BC, the body squat and decorated with spiral designs in red slip, the rim is wide and flat and flanked by barrel-lug handles on the vessel's

Ancient Egypt, late Pre-Dynastic, ca. 4000 to 3100 BCE. An impressive offering dish of remarkable scale boasting an elegant form with a heavy bottom, a shallow basin, a circular rim, and thick walls a

Ancient East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2100 BCE. A lovely example of a hand-built pottery vessel of a flat-bottomed form with a slender body, gradually widening shoulders, and a thick rim su

**Originally Listed At $1800** Ancient Near East, Arabian Peninsula, modern-day Oman, ca. early 1st millennium BCE. A gorgeous pottery storage urn boasting an immense scale and a robust silhouette. Im

Native American, Southeast or Midwest, Mississippian, ca. 980 to 1380 CE. A stunning handmade pottery jar in mottled hues of grey and brown with spots of creamy white pigment. Sitting on a round yet s

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle culture, ca. 600 to 1000 CE. A handsome ceramic jar decorated with a dense profusion of abstract zoomorphic/saurian forms o

Southeast Asia, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), ca. 15th century CE. A massive and marvelous pottery jar presenting a voluminous body, a rounded shoulder, a corseted neck, and a flared rim, all sitting upo

East Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 907 CE. A breathtaking Tang Dynasty vessel, its body of an expansive pear shape with gently curved walls resolving to a slight neck, topped by a fitted lid w

Originally listed at $800... Ancient East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. A splendid pottery jar presenting a globular body with a rounded shoulder, a corseted neck, and an impre

Southeast Asia, Cambodia or Northern Thailand, Khmer Empire (Angkor culture), ca. 12th to 13th century CE. A refined pottery vase boasting an elegant silhouette and intricate impressed and applied dec

**Originally Listed At $600** Southeast Asia, Cambodia or Northern Thailand, Khmer Empire (Angkor culture), ca. 12th to 13th century CE. A refined pottery vase boasting an elegant silhouette and intri