Bolivian Tiwanaku / Tiahuanaco Polychrome Kero

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Lake Titicaca region, Tiwanaku/Tiahuanaco, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A polychrome kero with concave walls that gracefully flare, adorned on the interior walls with four stylized anth

**Originally Listed At $600** Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) culture, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A beautiful, hand-built, and highly-burnished ceramic kero with a planar base, tall walls that g

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Bolivian Highlands, Lake Titicaca region, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) culture, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A hand-built pottery bowl with flared walls, a thick rim,

**Originally Listed At $200** Pre-Columbian, Western Bolivia, Chiribaya or Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) culture, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. An attractive, hand-built pottery bowl with a flat base, gradually-expandi

100% of the Hammer price of all lots sold in this auction will be donated to Community Food Share by Artemis Gallery. $1.00 = 3 meals! **Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Bolivian highland

A pre-Columbian 600 AD - 800 AD 6 1/2 inches tall Bolivia Kero. This ceramic polychrome example has several molded and painted faces encircling the vessel. Red, white and purple paints. Ex- Knox Artif

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Bolivian Highlands, Lake Titicaca region, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) culture, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A hand-built pitcher of a globular form with sloped should

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Bolivian Highlands, Lake Titicaca region, Tiahuanaco/Tiwanaku culture, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A fine set of two hand-built pottery vases with planar bases, bulbous bodies, slightly

Pre-Columbian, Western Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) culture, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. A gorgeous, crescent-shaped vessel featuring a highly graphic, playfully painted motif and a pair of small, appliqued

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast of Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 500 to 800 CE. An attractive kero or cylindrical beaker with flaring sides, a vessel popular when Wari and Tiwanaku dominated the central and sout

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) culture, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A beautiful double-spouted vessel featuring a dramatic motif of stylized faces. The vessel rests on a flat base that supports

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Western Bolivia, Chiribaya or Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) culture, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. A hand-built pottery cup with a knob-shaped base which prohibits it from being

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) or Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A lovely four cornered hat woven from a camelid (alpaca or llama) fiber that is dyed in hues of red, yellow, d

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, probably Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku), ca. 400 to 1100 CE. A conical ceramic kero (quero, qero) with abstract stepped and linear motifs painted in black,

**Originally Listed At $800** Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Tiahuanaco/Tiwanaku, ca. 400 to 1100 CE. A handsome wooden kero (also qiru, quero, qero), an Andean drinking vessel made to consume a fermented co

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, possibly Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku), ca. 400 to 1100 CE. A fascinating ceramic bowl with a wide, gently flared body, a flat base, and a complex iconography. Standing in the center o

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku), ca. 400 to 1100 CE. A heavy pottery kero (quero) with a projecting, three-dimensional jaguar face rising from one side of the rim. The body, which tapers

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku), ca. 400 to 600 CE. A hand-carved wooden kero (drinking cup) with a zoomorphic creature peering over the rim. The kero rests on

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Lake Titicaca region, Tiahuanaco/Tiwanaku culture, ca. 600 to 800 CE. Interesting painted pottery kero from this ancient civilization. Flared cup used for drinking chicha, a na

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Lake Titicaca region, Tiahuanaco/Tiwanaku culture, ca. 600 to 800 CE. Interesting matching pair of painted pottery keros from this ancient civilization. Flared cups used for dr

**Originally Listed At $250** Pre-Columbian, Bolivian highlands, Lake Titikaka region, Tihuanaco/Tiwanaku ca. 600 to 800 CE. A lovely handbuilt polychrome bowl, with beautifully painted exterior walls

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, South Andean Highlands, Tihuanaco (Tiwanaku), ca. 400 to 700 CE. A polychrome globular bottle, a popular form of the Tihuanaco artisans, with a generous rounded body, a perfora

Pre-Columbian, Bolivia, Lake Titicaca region, Tihuanaco / Tiwanaku, ca. 400 to 700 CE. A graceful, polychrome (red, black, and beige) pottery vessel of an aryballos form with a llama head emerging fro

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A truly spectacular vessel with some of the finest paint we have ever seen. This is a flaring kero (also quero) painted with the mythica