Chimu Blackware Feline Head Jar, ex-Museum

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished blackware pottery jar displaying 3 registers of protruding maize ears. The he

Pre-Columbian, central coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A remarkable blackware vessel presenting an ovoid form with a rounded shoulder, a narrow, cylindrical neck, and a circular, flared rim, a

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, 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, North Coast Peru, Viru culture, ca. 300 BCE to 100 CE. A hand-built and highly-burnished pottery vessel with a negative resist design on the body, feline head with large toothy grin, cu

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A fabulous hand-built pottery vessel depicting a dignified figure with a bulbous body and cylindrical head topped by a flared headdress that

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A fabulous hand-built pottery vessel depicting a dignified figure with a bulbous body and cylindrical head topped by a flared headdress that

Pre-Columbian, North Central Peru, Chimu/Inca, ca. 1470 to 1523 CE. A lively blackware pottery vessel with a near-spherical body and a flared spout, the body in the form of a jaguar head featuring an

TWO CHIMU BLACKWARE VESSELSPeru, two Chimu jars, one having handle with geometric and dot decoration, one Jaguar effigy jar with human head. 6.25" and 4.5" height

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1400 CE. Fine pottery blackware jar with human head spout, strap handle and impressed with twin abstract lizard / transformational beasts on th

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A beautiful mold-made blackware vessel in a characteristic avian form, with a flat and stable base, broad head, large protruding beak,

Northern Peru, Sican/ Lambayeque to early Chimu, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. Attractive blackware jar in the form of a duck. Sitting on rounded conical base, duck's head emerges from one side, tail from the o

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, 1100 to 1470 CE. A fine terracotta stirrup vessel in the form of a stylized camelid head, such as a llama, alpaca, or even vicuna. The cranium rests on a concave and conica

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 700 CE. A wonderful blackware kero in the form of a shaman head in the midst of transformation. Supported by a flat, circular base, the ancient figur

Pre-Columbian, Peru, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A lively blackware pottery stirrup vessel with a near-spherical body in the form of a jaguar head featuring an expressive visage with incised almond-shaped ey

A blackware face jar with spool earrings. 7-1/2" H; 2 lbs. Provenance: Ex collection, New York, NY

Fine Blackware Lord Canteen, Patterned Border Around Bottom, Lord is Adorned With Elaborate Earrings, Animal Figures Are Featured on Each Side, Museum Condition, Ex-Private Palm Beach Collection, Orig

Pre-Columbian, northern to central Peru, Inca, but possibly made by a Chimu artisan, ca. 1300 to 1500 CE. A handsome burnished blackware stirrup vessel depicting the head of an elite lord or warrior,

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. This is a finely carved black ware strap handled jar in the shape of a monkey's head. Fine lines around the face give the impression of a wizened old a

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. This is a finely carved black ware strap handled jar in the shape of a monkey's head. Fine lines around the face give the impression of a wizened old a

A haunting Vintage Shrunken Head. South American, early twentieth century. Displayed at the Metamora Museum Of Oddities as an authentic shrunken head, but is more likely an excellent vintage facsimile

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A whimsical ceramic vessel in the shape of a broad-bodied fish with a human-like face, relief gills and mouth, and a projecting tail fin. A tall, conic

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Vicus, ca. 300 to 500 CE. Globular bodied vessel in deep brick red, adorned with twin erect phalluses, bridge spout between. Each phallus is molded with great accur

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A wonderful blackware jar, mold-made to present a circular body adorned with elaborate relief decoration. Sitting upon a planar base, the