Bactrian Redware Pottery Vessel - Huge & w/ TL

**Originally Listed At $1800** Central Asia, Bactria, ca. mid 1st millennium BCE. An elegant redware wheel-thrown pottery jar of large form featuring a circular corseted base with impressively thin wa

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hollow, hand-built redware pottery vessel of a bulbous form depicting a charming canine covered in vibrant red and red

Ancient Near East, Holyland, Bronze Age, ca. 2100 to 1100 BCE. An elegant pottery vessel presenting a narrow, flat base, a conical bottom, a wide, carinated hip, a gently rounded shoulder that tapers

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Lambayeque Valley, Middle Sican-Lambayeque culture, ca. 900 to 1100 CE. A wonderful pottery whistle vessel comprised of 2 cuboid chambers connected via an ovoid tunnel. O

Ancient Central Asia, Bactria, ca. early 2nd millennium BCE. An intriguing cosmetics vessel, hand-built from grayware pottery, depicting an abstract horse-like creature standing atop a quartet of rod-

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Among the finest and the largest that we have ever seen, a beautiful redware vessel of an overall gourd-like form with four peyote buttons de

East Asia, Japan, Jomon Period, ca. 14,000 to 300 BCE, coming with a TL Report showing it was fired/ produced around 4,000 years ago. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form wi

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin, ca. 1200 to 1000 BCE. A sizable example of a hand-built brownware pottery vessel featuring intricate, abstract zoomorphic creatures. The vessel presents with a

East Asia, Japan, Jomon Period, ca. 14,000 to 300 BCE, most likely about 3,000 to 4,000 years old. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base, the exterior walls

Native American, Southern United States, Mississippi County Arkansas, ca. 650 to 1150 CE. An impressive handmade pottery bowl in the form of a smooth cockle shell with a flat base and thick walls that

This is a Pre-Columbian redware pottery tripod vessel with a ring of cones and hand painted designs. Purchased 5/18/1988 Sotheby's NY Lot 318 sale 5715 From the Upstate New York estate of Marshall and

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished redware pottery bowl with large, coiling snakes decorating the exterior walls. Each se

Shantung Province, China, Longshan Culture, ca. 2600-2000 BC. An elegant tripod ewer with mammiform legs and an upraised beak spout, rope decoration encircling the body. Oxford TL test (documentation

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A unique mold-made stirrup vessel topped with a figure playing a musical instrument and painted in lovely hues of russet, black, orang

Native American, southwestern United States, New Mexico, Pueblo II/Pueblo III (Anasazi) period, Tularosa, ca. 875 to 1050 CE. A charming, hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a seated duck with fo

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, late Chavin, ca. 600 to 400 BCE. A wonderful hand-built blackware bridge vessel presenting a two-tiered shape that incorporates zoomorphic and architectural elements i

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche, Phase V, ca. 600 to 750 CE. A mold-formed stirrup vessel featuring a flat base and bulbous body depicting a charming frog, perhaps a toad, with a curious look on its face.

This is a Pre-Columbian redware pottery tripod vessel with hand modeled figural rabbit decorations and painted designs. From the Upstate New York estate of Marshall and Kay Lee. Marshall was a well kn

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A fascinating and incredibly rare figural ceramic vessel in the form of a shaman holding serpents. The figure wears a dramatic, conical

Pre-Columbian, central/north coast Peru, Moche, Phase II, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A finely constructed pottery vessel with a large standing owl with long talons in high relief, feathers in low relief body

Pre-Columbian, Western Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) culture, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A wonderful, hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a flute player balancing on his stomach with his legs bent at th

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Salinar culture, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. A striking ceramic stirrup vessel with a round body with flattened base, a thick stirrup handle, and a short, flaring spout

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche, Phase III, ca. 400 to 500 CE. A superb portrait vessel created by the Moche culture. The Moche of northern Peru may be the only ancient c

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel with a round but stable base, a tapered cylindrical body, and a thin rim surrounding th