A Large Tairona (Colombia) Blackware Lidded Vess

A Large Tairona (Colombia) Blackware Lidded Vessel For similar examples, see Armand J. Labbe's Colombia Before Columbus: The People, Culture, and Ceramic Art of Prehispanic Colombia, New York: Rizzoli

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. Like much Tairona art, this one has so many details that it will take you many viewings to see them all. A blackware vessel with an elonga

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. A large burnished blackware double-spouted vessel with huge conical spouts that join at diagonal angles to a small, ovoid body. The body s

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. A large pottery vessel in the form of an underworld deity. Reminiscent of pottery from the region further south into Peru where the Moche

Pre-Columbian, Colombia or Venezuela, Tairona, ca. 800 CE. Rare blackware pottery jar in the form of a rotund human. He holds his short arms at his girthy sides, wearing a long necklace, a large labre

Pre-Columbian, Colombia or Venezuela, ca. 800 CE. Rare blackware pottery jar in the form of a rotund human. He holds his short arms at his girthy sides, wearing large and long necklace, large labret i

A strand of 10 exceptionally large Tairona beads from Colombia, c. AD 1000 - 1500, consisting mostly of dark jasper beads, up to 3 3/8 in in length. The strand is 28 1/2 in (72.2 cm) long overall. Ex

A large Tairona 'Anchor' pendant from Colombia, ca. AD 1000 - 1500. This superbly detailed example is 2 in long, 2-1/2 in wide and is made from tumbaga, a gold alloy, beautifully detailed with filigre

A Large Tairona Gold Bead or Mace Head Colombia, c. 700-1400 AD Hollow cast gold alloy (tumbaga), in form of a large bead or mace head, openwork crosses and lozenges

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. A charming large pottery effigy jar in the form of a pregnant woman. She sits with her arms and legs outstretched, her hands raised up in

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A lengthy hand-carved drug implement with a receptacle at one end for grinding lime to mix with coca leaves to permit the narcotic access to the

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A beautiful tumbaga (alloy of gold and copper) ornament with a highly abstract zoomorphic design with tightly coiled swirling designs mad

**Originally Listed At $250** Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A pendant made of pale green steatite that looks abstractly like a pointy-eared bat head flanked by long win

**Originally Listed At $300** Columbian, Colombia, Tairona, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A large tumbaga nose ornament with wing like panels to the sides, worn by inserting the ends of the central opening int

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. A low blackware bowl with a tall strap handle. Standing on four anthropomorphic legs, the vessel has, at the base of each end of the handl

**Originally Listed At $2000** Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. A blackware vessel with a tall, wide central spout on a zoomorphic base of four stout animorphic legs endin

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. A precious, near miniature blackware owl effigy vessel, perhaps representing a transitioning shaman donning an owl mask, a long robe, and incised

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE; Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A charming pair of pottery vessels, both in the form of zoom

**Originally Listed At $125** Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. Two hand-built pottery blackware vessels. First is a lime container in the form of a turtle with a slight r

From the Santa Marta Region of Colombia. Nice with decorated human effigy features

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 900 to 1500 CE. Stunning solid gold pendant in the form of a standing shaman. He wears a large nose ornament with scrolled designs along base, suspension

Pre-Columbian gold figure of a cacique, Tairona culture, Colombia, CE 1000-1500. The standing figure of a male cacique shown holding part of his ritual belt with each hand. A large concentric headdres

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 10th to 16th century CE. A large example of a "batwing" pectoral, so called because of its resemblance to the flying mammal, although the actual meaning o

**Originally Listed At $600** Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. This is a large example of the unusual pectoral or pendant known as a batwing pectoral, carved from a striat