Costa Rican Nicoya Pottery Double Headed Bird Ocarina

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya / Guanacaste, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A fantastical ocarina in the form of a double headed bird- the brownware surface incised with stippled pat

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya-Guanacaste region, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An intriguing janus-headed bichrome pottery vessel finished in a cream slip with black painted details. The piece is comprised

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A hand-built pottery ocarina of an abstract and stylized avian form, with a protruding mouthpiece that doubles as a tail. The body featu

An antique Pre Columbian manner Costa Rican Nicoya pottery vessel. The vessel is made in the form of a trophy head decorated with war paint and wearing an elaborate headdress that doubles as the flare

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 1st to 6th century CE. A large ceremonial mace head made from stone into the form of a double headed creature - perhaps a bird or fe

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Nicoya or Atlantic Watershed & Chorotega culture, ca. 300 to 1400 CE. A group of 4 hand-built pottery figurines. One seated figure also functions as a vesse

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, probably Nicoya area, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A set of 2 hand-built pottery vessels from ancient Costa Rica, a large bowl and a double

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya-Guanacaste region, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An intriguing rattle leg terracotta vessel painted in a color palette characteristic of this region - in a cream slip overall

(7) PRE-COLUMBIAN POTTERY OCARINAS - Zoomorphic Whistles in terra cotta, some with remnants of pigment, Nicoya peoples, Costa Rica, circa 500-1000 AD, depicting birds, rodents, a chipmunk and an armad

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A charming, hand-built pottery whistle in the form of a monkey with sizable, round eyes and a protruding snout in a characteristically s

Ancient Pre-Columbian, Costa Rican Nicoya Pottery Figure c.500 to 700 AD. Size 7 3/8 inches high. A Costa Rican Nicoya hollow pottery figure, depicted seated on bench holding water jar. Provenance: EX

Ancient Pre Columbian Csta Rican Nicoya Pottery Figure c.500 to 700 AD. Size 7 3/4 inches high. A Nicoya hollow pottery figure, decorated. Provenance: NY Lawyer collection 1970s-1980s.

**Originally Listed At $250** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya culture, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A pair of charming ceramic vessels, both with bulbous bodies and corseted necks. Wide, sloping mouths with

Pre-Columbian, Linea Vieja, Costa Rica, ca. 600 to 1000 CE. This is a small piece of molded pottery with four finger holes along its body to produce music. The tail is the mouthpiece. The lizard's hea

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya culture, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A hollow, molded pottery figure of a pregnant woman, with hands out at her sides, a detailed face, and a huge forehaed and head; her body

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A large, gourd-shaped ceramic ocarina, composed of a heavy red terracotta. Still playable! Size: 7.55" W x 4.1" H (19.2 cm x 1

**Originally Listed at $125** Pre-Columbian, Post Classic Maya, Mixtec, modern day Mexico, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE (copper bell) and Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 1000 CE (ocarina). A small copper bell w

**Originally Listed at $125** Pre-Columbian, Post Classic Maya, Mixtec, modern day Mexico, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE (copper bell) and Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 1000 CE (ocarina). A small copper bell w

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 200 to 800 CE. An absolutely gorgeous and still wearable janus-headed jadeite bead depicting a jaguar/serpent, drilled at the snouts/mouths of each wild

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Guanacaste-Nicoya, ca. 1200 to 1550 CE. A large polychrome pyriform footed vessel created in the Greater Nicoya region of Pre-Columbian Costa Rica, a monume

**First Time At Auction**Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Chiriqui, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. Tweet, tweet, tweet! A near-miniature variant of a Costa Rican terracotta "spider pot" or a "chocolate pot" - its tri

Costa Rican Nicoya Guanacaste Figural Pottery Assortment (7) items, mostly burnished polychrome, including a standing female; (2) seated females having headdresses; another seated female; a pendant ha

Pre-Columbian style, Costa Rican, Nicoya - Guanacaste terracotta pottery effigy vessel with bands of polychrome painted decoration and tripod form, rattle legs, depicting a human on one side and an an

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 800 to 1500 CE. A hand-built bowl with a deep, red-painted basin, a flared rim, and 3 abstract avian creatures, all above a trio of tall, loop-form legs