Chavin Polychrome Mask of Ai Apec - TL Tested

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 100 to 700 CE. This is a gorgeous intact example of one of the classic forms of pre-Columbian pottery -- the Moche stirrup vessel, using the shape

**Originally Listed At $1000** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A fascinating black stirrup vessel depicting the mythical episode of the hero deity, Ai Apaec, fight

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fascinating pottery mask displaying a stylized visage with annular eyes beneath straight brows, a curved nose with a septum adornment, prom

**First Time At Auction** Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 907 CE. A large, hollow pottery figure of a Bactrian camel wearing very distinctive saddle bags in the form of monstrous masked faces. T

Pre-Columbian, Central Highlands, Mexico, Mixtec culture, ca. 800 CE. Exceedingly rare set of four portrait heads done in heavy gray pottery, then finished in red and white added pigments. Each is car

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

Ca. 202 BC - 220 AD. A rare pottery duck. The bird is standing on its stylised, well-defined bronze legs which support a globular body and elegantly slender neck terminating in a black-coloured head w

South Asia, Indus Valley, Pakistan, ca. 2000 BCE. Very fine and extensively decorated, a polychrome pottery cup on a short foot, adorned on the exterior walls with twin birds, one gracing each side, a

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-

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Panama, Gran Cocle culture, ca. 600 to 1000 CE. A handsome ceramic jar decorated with a dense profusion of abstract zoomorphic/saurian forms o

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Moche, ca. 400 to 800 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of sizable form depicting Ai Apec (also Ai Apaec), the traditional primary deity of the Mochica people. Adorned i

East Asia, China, Sui Dynasty, ca. 581 to 618 CE. A lovely pottery figure of a regal court lady on horseback, most likely a funerary object of symbolic import, skillfully mold-made with impressive det

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

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 800 CE. A superb example of a portrait vessel featuring the head of a lord or warrior. He has a strong wild-eyed gaze and a prominent septum piercing

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, Phase IV to V, ca. 500 to 850 CE. Both a bit terrifying and comical, a fine example of one of the classic forms of pre-Columbian pottery - the Moche s

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery kero (also quero) presenting gorgeous abstract zoomorphic motifs across the elongated piriform body. The vessel features a round but

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

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

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Chavin, ca. 600 to 300 BCE. A pair of copper appliques or perhaps earrings of rectangular form exhibiting an early depiction of the fanged god Ai Apec in repousse. Each a

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. A wonderful pottery kero presenting a corseted body and tall, flared neck that leads to a broad rim, all sitting u

**Originally Listed At $1500** Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast Mexico, Veracruz, ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A gorgeous, hand-built pottery olla comprised of a planar base, tall walls, a frontal anthropomorp

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. A hand-built pottery cup adorned with a vibrantly colored depiction of the fierce "Anthropomorphic Mythical Being." The kero cup or bowl

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Chavin, ca. 800 to 500 BCE. A hand-built pottery stirrup vessel depicting a portly figure seated upon the voluminous base. The figure holds both incised arms up tow

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of a voluminous form with a round but stable base, a compressed spherical body with a central carination, and a tall, flared rim