A Stirrup Spout Bottle Decorated with a Relief of a Deity Effigy, Chavin, Peru, 1200-200 BCE

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 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

A Spout-and-Stirrup with Relief Decoration, Chavin, Peru, 1200-200 BCE Height: 23.7 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman bet

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 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

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

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chavin, ca. 900 to 200 BCE. A blackware lentoid vessel with a stirrup spout. The decorated body's upper shoulder is covered with incised, stepped motifs that resemble the sides of

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 Stirrup-Spout Bottle with Spondylus Shell Representation, Cupisnique, 1200-200 BCE One half of the vessel is textured in the manner of a sacred Spondylus shell, locally called "mullu" and

A Spout-and-Stirrup Bottle: Anthropomorphic Foot, Chavin, Peru, 900 BCE - 500 CE Height: 22 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Ma

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: A Deity Playing Panpipe, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE The body of the vessel is modeled in the shape of a platform on which the reclining divinity is propped up on his

A Spout and Stirrup Effigy Bottle: Two Figures Seated on an Urn, Moche, Peru, 200-500 CE Height: 17.7 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by

Pre-Columbian, Mochica, North Coast Peru. ca. 300 CE.  Relief decorated tapered ovoid pottery bottle with a stirrup spout. Decorated in relief on both sides depicting two Ai-Apec warriors in battle,

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 900 to 200 BCE. A large mold-formed ceramic vessel with a flat base, a wide body, an arching stirrup handle, and a bulbous tapering spout with a ro

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 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

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: A Representation of a Mythical Feline-Snake, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Profile representation of a mythical being elaborated in low relief. The creature has an undul

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chongoyape, Tembladera phase, ca. 1200 to 1000 BCE. A fabulous mold-formed brownware pottery bottle with a flat base, a bulbous ovoid body, a wide stirrup-shaped handl

An Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Monkey, Late Moche, Peru, 450-700 CE Height: 22.2 cm For more details on this lot refer to the following number in the link: num 173, p. 158 (

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

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: Human Skull, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE Skeletal figures were frequently depicted in Moche art. They represented the "living dead" who appeared in various r

Stirrup-Spout Vessel with Monkey Emerging from a Beaker, Salinar, Peru, 200 BCE-100 CE The beaker containing the monkey might also symbolize a funerary bundle, these images were probably associated wi

A Spout-and-Stirrup Bottle: Lobster Claw, Moche, Peru, 200-500 CE Height: 22.8 cm Provenance: Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli, Geneva, Switzerland. Purchased by Yossef Maiman between

A Stirrup-Spout Effigy Bottle: A Rat Gnawing Maize Cob, Early Moche, Peru, 100-450 CE The iconographical theme of a rat gnawing a maize cob is very ancient and probably related to harvest rituals. He