Colima Pottery Figural Flute - Functional!

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A pottery flute adorned by brown slip with the figure of a ball player or warrior just below the flared mouthpie

Pre-Columbian Colima pottery rattle; in the form of a seated figure, the rotund body surmounted by an exaggerated, tall neck and small head with incised and moulded features; circa 2nd Century B.C.; H

A Colima Pottery Figural Vessel  West Mexico, Circa 250 B.C.-250 A.D. Height 12 1/8 inches. Provenance: Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Property from the Estate of Billie Ross, Chicago, Illinois

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built terracotta flute with the figure of a warrior just below the mouthpiece who wears a helmet with coi

Originally offered at $400... Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A sweet pottery sculpture of a seated mother holding her child in her left arm. Bare-chested, the maternal fig

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fine pottery figural whistle, perhaps an athlete, wearing a conical helmet that straps under the chin and standing atop thick, slightly ben

Pre-Columbian Colima Pottery Figural Tripod Vessel. Vessel with everted mouth; bulbous fluted body supported by three male figures. {Approximate dimensions: 7 1/2 high x 10 1/2 inches diameter.}. Prov

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery whistle in the form of an adorable puppy as it attempts to stand on its four attenuated legs.

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. The ancients of the Americas created beautiful musical instruments out of pottery, most adorned with animal or human figurines, and the indig

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery acrobat figure with an unusually contorted body. Posed in a handstand with the head facing for

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, COlima Mexico, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A well-preserved ceramic flute featuring four open hole keys. It is lovely to know that people in the past valued music i

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A lovely pottery flute adorned with brown slip with the figure of a warrior just below the mouthpiece. The warrior wears a large helmet wi

Two Pre-Columbian, Colima pottery pieces, including: whistle of drummer form; together with carrier figure; H: 4" (largest, approx.)

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fascinating ceramic jar with a globular body, small mouth at its top, and an anthropomorphic figure "holding" it

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A marvelous group of four hand-built pottery flutes, each boasting a long, cylindrical form with a tapered mouthpiece. First, the longest

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A pair of working Colima 4-hole pottery flutes. The barrel of the first is elaborately decorated with a carved anthropomorphic lizard and

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A marvelous group of four hand-built pottery flutes, each boasting a long, cylindrical form with a tapered mouthpiece. First, the longest

**Originally Listed At $450** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery double flute bearing a pair of cylindrical tubes connected along the topside. The front of

Pre-Columbian, West Coast Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Most flutes we see are usually very plain and almost always repaired. This fine example is neither. Straight pottery musical instrument

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built buff terracotta flute with a twin-slit mouthpiece, two tone holes, and eight finger holes for mani

**Originally Listed At $150** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A tall pottery flute with double tubes and a zoomorphic - possibly owl-shaped - mouth piece. The flute has eigh

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. An impressive ensemble of 5 hand-built pottery artifacts; 1 Colima f

Pre-Columbian Colima Figural VesselPre-Columbian (Colima) painted pottery figural vessel; of a man with a long torso and short curvature legs, wearing a loincloth tied at his lower back and an almond

Pre-Columbian Colima Pottery Seated PriestPre-Columbian (Colima) painted pottery figural vessel; of a seated priest wearing only a simple loincloth and large plug jewelry; a cylindrical cup attached t