Chavin Tembladera Spouted Vessel Transforming Shaman

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, Tembladera phase, ca. 800 to 500 BCE. A remarkable mold-made pottery stirrup vessel presenting a double-chamber body in the form of a conch shell and a

Chavin (Tembladera) stirrup spout vessel in the form of a squatting figure with stylized features. Dimensions:8" x 6", the height is 10 3/4". Provenance:From a Philadelphia collection.

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Chavin to Vicus transition period, ca. 400 to 100 BCE. A unique ceramic vessel, standing on three legs and in the form of a shaman transforming into a zoomorphic, possibl

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Amazon Rainforest, Maranon River, Chavin Maranon, ca. 1500 to 1200 BCE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel depicting a highly stylized shaman as he transforms into t

Originally offered at $1,500... Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Casa Grande, earliest type of stirrup vessel called "Classic Chavin", ca. 1200 BCE. A very fine example of the early monochrome stirru

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, Peru, Chavin Maranon, ca. 800 BCE. A fabulous pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a shaman in the act of intensely spiritual act of transformation into an animal with an extending sno

Chimu Blackware Head Vessel, Peru, c. 1000-1200 AD, probably depicting a Shaman transforming into a Jaguar. Dimensions: 5 H x 5.5 Dia

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A marvelous pottery stirrup vessel displaying the form of a seated shaman in the process of transforming into a bird. Adorned in

Scare Pre-Columbian Maya Spouted Vessel in the form of VUK’UB KAK’IX from the Southern Maya Lowlands, ca. 100 B.C.-250 CE. This is a type rarely seen but one of the finest examples. Usulut

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A fabulous mold made terracotta effigy vessel in the form of a man with a deer! This is a rare depiction of a shaman or hunter resting o

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built redware effigy vessel of an anthropomorphic figure. The broad figure stands on two squat legs with a tunic-like shirt jutting

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 550 to 700 CE. A skillfully executed, hand-built pottery stirrup vessel portraying a seated shaman with knees drawn up to his chest and wearing a

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche ca. 400 to 700 CE. Large and detailed pottery jar in the form of a regal owl. Body covered with cream feathers over brick-red background. His facial expression is one of the

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built redware effigy vessel of an anthropomorphic figure. The broad figure stands on two squat legs with a tunic-like shirt jutting

Zapotec Spouted Vessel from Southern Mexico, ca. 300-500 A.D. Depicting a highly ornamented figure with headdress, necklace and ear-spools. Traces of red still visible. A fantastic and rare example! 6

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built redware effigy vessel of an anthropomorphic figure. The broad figure stands on two squat legs with a tunic-like shirt jutting

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A fabulous polychrome effigy vessel of a generally globular form depicting a highly-decorated male shaman who holds ceremonial implements in

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A fabulous polychrome effigy vessel of a generally globular form depicting a highly decorated male shaman who holds ceremonial implements in

Originally listed at $1,500... Pre-Columbian, Central Coast of Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 850 to 1100 CE. A rare example of a mold-formed pottery vessel shaped like a pacay pod (also known as Inga feuil

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche, Phase V, ca. 650 to 850 CE. A delightful pottery of stirrup vessel in the form of a seated figure, likely a lord or shaman, dressed elaborately with a plumed headd

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 300 CE. An elegant polychrome figural vessel depicting a kneeling woman holding ritualistic implements or perhaps abstract representations of sea cre

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. An intriguing blackware stirrup vessel with an incised motif and high relief anthropomorphic figure with a bird. The vessel has a flat ba

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 BCE to 125 CE. Full of personality, this human effigy vessel of a seated man with a quasi-cylindrical body and an ovoid head with a bridge spout handle