Canaanite Terracotta Bull Vessel - TL Tested

Ancient Near East, Holy Land, Canaanite, Bronze Age, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. An impressive pottery vessel in the form of a bull presenting a cylindrical, horizontal body atop a pair of slender, strip-fo

Pakistan, Indus Valley civilization, Harappa, ca. 3000 BCE. This is a slip-painted terracotta sculpture of a humped Zebu bull with a pot on his head. There is a round hole in the middle of the pot, ex

Greece, Late Mycenaean to Archaic, ca. 1200 to 600 BCE. A beautiful, wheel-made, polychrome amphora in the Mycenaean pictorial style with an elegant body and equidistantly placed twin handles bridging

East Asia, Japan, Middle to Late Jomon Period, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base. The exterior walls are adorned by incised paralle

East Asia, Japan, Middle to Late Jomon Period, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base. The exterior walls are adorned by incised paralle

East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 BCE. A graceful, hand-built terracotta vessel presenting a flat base, a cylindrical body, an expanding shoulder with a thick rim, and a perforated protrus

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. 5th century BCE. A sleek black-glazed terracotta vessel, in a characteristic alabastron profile, featuring a flat and stable footed base, a slender piriform body with two t

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche IV, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A large, flat-bottomed, ovoid bichrome terracotta stirrup-spouted vessel with fine-line painted russet brown

Near East, Iran, Achaemenid Empire, ca. 550 to 330 BCE. A terracotta rhyton (ceremonial drinking or libation vessel) in the form of a boot with curved toe in the form of a skillfully delineated mythol

Ancient Near East, Holy Land, Iron Age II, ca. late 8th to early 7th century BCE. A tall terracotta beer strainer used to separate solid ingredients from the liquid inside of a larger vessel. This sie

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec culture, Monte Alban III, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A magnificent ceramic vessel in the form of a seated god, Cocijo or Cociyo, the god of rain and lightning, wearing a

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Jequetepeque River region, Chavin culture, Tembladera phase, ca. 1200 to 1000 BCE. A fabulous ceramic vessel depicting two fisherman sitting atop a pair of cylindrical

Late Helladic IIIB, Late 14th-13th century BC A large decorated tan color pottery vessel having a round tapered body, twin opposing strap type handles connected to a central column support having a la

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Moche, Phase III to IV, ca. 350 to 700 CE. A wonderful pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a portrait head with prominent face tattoos embellishing the chin, upper l

12th-9th century BC. A ceramic vessel in the form of a standing bull, with a bulbous body and discoid rump with slender tail; large hump, forward projecting horns, rounded conical forelegs and head, f

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A delightful bi-chrome stirrup vessel in the form of an iguana. The stirrup rises from the lizard's back, capped by a short, perfectly formed

Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 150 to 650 CE. A stunning openwork pottery leg of a vessel of rectangular form featuring a central figure, perhaps a priest, standing in a temple. The

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca or Guerrero region, Mixtec culture, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A gorgeous, hand-built pottery vase of a sizable form bearing a wide, conical foot surmounted by a tall, tapered

**Originally Listed At $2000** Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2200 BCE. A fabulous tripod vessel comprised of a hemispherical bowl

Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BCE. A gorgeous pottery jar elaborately incised and hand-painted with a pair of massive zebu bulls

East Asia, China, Western Han Dynasty, ca. 200 BCE. A remarkably realistic pottery figure of a bull standing atop a rectangular plinth presenting a prominent humped back. Head projecting forwards, the

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 1st century BCE to 2nd century CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a relatively spherical form with a round but stable base, sloped shoulders, and a stirrup-

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Bronze Age, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A blackware kernos or ritualistic altar vessel, the voluminous body resting on a flared

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Intermediate to Late Bronze Age, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A splendid and quite sizable grayware jar boasting a voluminous, globular body wit