A Double Spout-and-Bridge Vessel with Painted Mythological Deity Effigy, Late Nasca, Peru, 300-600

A Double Spout-and-Bridge Vessel with Painted Mythological Deity Effigy, Late Nasca, Peru, 300-600 CE Height: 17 cm Provenance: Kemper Collection, Switzerland. Donated to "The Museum of Islamic

A Lucuma Fruit Vessel: Double-Spout-and-Bridge Effigy Bottle, Peru, Late Nasca, 300-600 CE Two joined lucuma fruits decorated with painted star-like elements (probably a representation of the masks us

A Double Spout-and-Bridge Animal Effigy Vessel, Late Nasca, Peru, 300-600 CE Probably a very rare representation of a small-eared zorro with a small animal in its mouth. Height: 15.8 cm For more det

An Achira Tuber Vessel: Double-Spout-and-Bridge Effigy Bottle, Peru, Late Nasca, 300-600 CE The head of the man has fifteen holes in the back and in the face serving as the acoustic chamber of the whi

A Large Bottle with Depictions of the Anthropomorphic Mythical Being, Late Nasca, Peru, 300-600 CE A double spout and bridge bottle ornamented with two highly stylized and similar depictions the Anthr

A Double Spout-and-Bridge Bottle Ornamented with a Mythological Parrot Effigy, Nasca, Peru, 100 BCE -800 CE Height: 19.2 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switze

A Double Spout-and-Bridge Bottle with Painted Frogs, Peru, Late Early Nasca, 1-200 CE Frogs (adult and tadpoles) were strongly associated with water. Their appearance in the river valleys was likely s

A Double Spout-and-Bridge Bottle with a Depiction of Two Horrible Birds, Middle Nasca, Peru, 200-300 CE The bottle painted with two depictions of mythical bird creatures decorated with trophy heads re

A Nasca double spout vessel with painted centipede monster. Pottery, pigment. Circa 100 CE to 300 CE. With mount: 8 1/4" x 6 1/4".Condition: Abrasions, loss of pigment. Includes black circular mount.P

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. An exquisitely painted bridge-spout vessel of a globular form with a rounded base and a mesmerizing arrangement of frogs across its e

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Classic "Portrait Vessel", Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE The man represented in the vessel has an elaborate cloth headdress decorated with geometrical motifs. His has and

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Central Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1532 CE. A lovely pottery double-chambered vessel featuring a tall spout and a slender bridge-form handle that connects to

Possibly Late Period, 600-300 B.C. A large limestone relief divided into three horizontal bands. The top band depicts two striding human feet, the middle shows a single row of hieroglyphs and the bott

A Stirrup Spout Effigy Bottle: A Condor, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Representation of a condor, the biggest flying bird of the region, considered the lord of the air and one of the major spirits of

KANGXI PERIOD QILIN VASEChinese, late 17th to early 19th century, enameled porcelain. The bulbous, vasiform vessel painted with an underglaze red qilin, foo lion, and another hooved creature.8 in. (20

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. An exemplary pottery cylinder vessel, finely painted with scenes of sacred rituals, glyphs, and geomet

Rare Mayan Codex-type vessel, Late Classic period, circa 6th-9th Century; the flared cylindrical form boldly painted in dark brown-black on a cream ground; Provenance: Estate of William Ashby, thence

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Jequetepeque River region, Chavin culture, Tembladera phase, ca. 1200 to 1000 BCE. A fabulous ceramic vessel depicting two fisherman sitting atop a pair of cylindrical

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Chimu, Late Intermediate Period, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. An elegant ritual kero (drinking cup) formed from a single sheet of 74.9% gold (equivalent to 17K+). The minim

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 1470 to 1532 CE. A hand-carved stone effigy offering vessel, known as a canopa, depicting either a llama or an alpaca. A drilled cav

A Set of Four Chinese Red Lacquer Wall Panelslate 19th or early 20th century, likely Republic period, each panel with red ground and decorated with archaic style painted vases and vessels, gilt filigr

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN PINK-GROUND PATE-SUR-PATE VASE AND COVER LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, PRESSNUMMERN 80 AND ...55Bifurcated double snake-form handle, finely painted and hand-tooled

late Dynastic/Saite period, after 600 B.C. painted cloth on cypress board, with figure of jackal 15”h; 13.5”w, mounted within acrylic case From the collection of a Massachusetts gentleman,

Near East / Central Asia, Northwestern Iran, Parthia / Amlash, late Bronze Age, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. A remarkable bull effigy cast from bronze with a symmetrically proportioned body! Although hollow,