A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Bean, Nasca, Peru, 200-600 BCE

A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Bean, Nasca, Peru, 200-600 BCE Height: 8 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between 2000

A Spout-and-Handle Whistling Effigy Bottle: Seated Male, Salinar, Peru, 200 BCE-100 CE Height: 17.7 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 133, p. 154 (

A Spout-and-Bridge Effigy Bottle: Warrior, Early Nasca, Peru, 1-200 CE Depicting a standing male holding arrows in this right hand and a spear thrower and mace in his left hand. The warrior is depicte

A Spout-and-Stirrup Effigy Bottle with Ritualistic Relief, Chavin, Peru, 1200-200 BCE Height: 20.4 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yo

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 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

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Vicus culture, 200 BCE to 600 CE. A pretty, hand-sculpted jar with a thin, cylindrical handle and cylindrical spout topping a bulbous body with corseted shoulders. The he

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Vicús culture, ca. 200 BCE to 600 CE. This is a double vessel with a narrow spout on one side, a strap handle between the two bulbous bottoms, and a seated jaguar perched atop th

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 Stirrup Spout Bottle Decorated with a Relief of a Deity Effigy, Chavin, Peru, 1200-200 BCE Height: 20.5 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchase

A Plain Stirrup-Spout Bottle, Salinar, Peru, 200 BCE-100 CE Height: 20.3 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 135, p. 154 (

A Manioc Tuber-Shaped Stirrup-Spout Bottle, Cupisnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE The body of the vessel is in the form of two manioc plants interlocked and covered with incised decoration showing five anthr

A Four-Chambered Double Spout-and-Bridge Bottle, Nasca, Peru, 100-600 CE Height: 11.6 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman b

A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Owl, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 20 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 182, p. 159 (

A Spout-and-Handle Effigy Bottle: Spotted Dog, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE The dog was one of the very few domesticated animals in the Andes. The Moche believed that dogs escorted the dead to the un

A Stirrup-Spout Bottle with Incised Decoration, Cupisnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE The body of the vessel is decorated with two versions of highly stylized representations of bleeding, anthropomorphic hea

An Effigy Bottle: Male Holding a Bowl, Vicus, Peru, 200 BCE-800 CE Height: 23.7 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 138, p. 154 (

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

A Strap-and-Spout Effigy Bottle: Human Head, Huari-Related Local Style, Peru, 600-900 CE A man wearing a simple headdress and round earplugs. His face is decorated with beautiful and complex paintings

A Spout Effigy Bottle: Seated Priest with a Headdress, Moche, Peru, 600-900 CE Height: 13.8 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Ma

A Stirrup-Spout Bottle with Stylized Representations of Ospreys, Cupinnique, Peru, 1200-200 BCE The body is decorated with two representations of he mythical Cupinnique ospreys (fish-eagles) - birds w

A Double Spout-and-Bridge Bottle with Geometric Mofits, Lima, Peru, 200-800 BCE Height: 15 cm Provenance: Kemper Collection, Switzerland. Donated to "The Museum of Islamic Art", Jerusalem,

An Effigy Bottle: Standing Man with a Big Chicha Storage Jar, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Spout-and-handle effigy bottle with a representation of a well-dressed standing male tasting or drinking chi

A Spouted Bottle Depicting a Seated Male Figure, Late Nasca, Peru, 300-600 CE Spouted effigy bottle representing a man with legs crossed and hands resting on his abdomen. Only his face is rendered in