Colima Redware Flute - Snake Form

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built terracotta flute in the form of a sinuous, slithering serpent with applied details and four pitch or sound holes. In the Pre-Col

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A beautiful Colima redware vessel presenting a gadrooned squash or melon-shaped body supported by three avian legs, each bird positioned upwa

Ancient Pre-Columbian, Colima, Mexican Ceramic Pottery Redware Vessel, circa 100 BCE to 250 CE, in the form of a head with rectangular ears and donning a headdress with incised geometric decoration, t

Pre-Columbian, Western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built earthenware double flute of long twin tubular construction, with twin mouthpieces, and each side with four pitch or key holes

Title: Pre-Columbian Colima Flute Alligator Form Terra Cotta Description:Pre-Columbian Colima Flute Alligator Form Terra Cotta.Provenance: from a collection of pre-Columbian/ pre-Columbian manner pott

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A splendid and sizable pottery jar presenting a unique, carinated form with a narrow, planar base and impressively thin walls that dramatical

Pre-Columbian, West Coast Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. A very rare and quite attractive carved obsidian snake. Perhaps used as a dagger or knife, but more likely just showing the technical s

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A remarkable hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel with a round but stable base, a wide hip, a dramatic carination, a sloping should

**Originally Listed at $450** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A very large redware pottery vessel depicting four gourds, its globular body magnificently modeled with these organic s

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A remarkable hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel with a round but stable base, a wide hip, a dramatic carination, a sloping should

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

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. An adorable redware ceramic effigy whistle depicting a sweet bird. Avian forms were embraced in the Pre-Columbian world as sky animals that c

Pre-Columbian, western Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Pottery double flute of long tubular construction, twin mouthpieces and each side with 4 pitch or key holes. Top of flute is decorated wit

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A beautiful Colima redware vessel presenting a gadrooned squash or melon-shaped body supported by three avian legs, each bird positioned upwa

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built and highly-burnished pottery vessel of a large form with a rounded base, a wide, tapering body with two projecting elements, and

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel enveloped in a umber-red slip, with rounded nodules protruding slightly from the surface. Th

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery reclinatario depicting an abstract avian creature with a slender beak. The piece rests upon a broad

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Post-Classic period, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. An attractive redware vessel boasting a unique form with a horizontal band of protruding nod

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished redware pottery bowl with large, coiling snakes decorating the exterior walls. Each se

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A finely hand built Colima redware vessel in the form of a duck, very large in scale with rich color and a wonderfully burnished finished. Ta

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A beautiful hand-built pottery turtle vessel with a highly-burnished surface, lustrous red slip coating, and wonderful z

Lot consisting of Pre-Columbian style figural pottery, including a Colima style redware vessel in the form of a dog (6 3/4" H x 5 1/2" W x 10 1/4" L); a vase in the form of a standing old woman, arms

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE to 300 CE. A most unusual Colima redware vessel presenting a gadrooned squash form body supported by three shaman figures, each one wearing a horned hea

This is a Pre-Columbian Protoclassic Colima redware pottery cylindrical vessel featuring three double headed snakes. Dating to c. 100 B.C.-250 A.D. Sotheby's NY. This item is described in a certified