Costa Rican Stone Celt

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 250 to 800 CE. A lovely pair of avian axe god celt pendants - the lighter green celt finely carved from jade, t

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 100 to 500 CE. A beautiful avian celt, finely carved from a single piece of mottled greenstone, depicting a rather unusual triple-headed avia

**Originally Listed At $350** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A petite figural celt that is hand-carved from mottled sage-green stone with inclusions in black

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 200 to 600 CE. Finely carved and string cut from beautiful jade of mottled seafoam green hues, an axe god representing two animals - an abstract bird form when viewed on

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. Finely carved and string-cut, an axe-god celt in the form of an abstract bird effigy with avian beak and wing

**Originally Listed At $200** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste/Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. Finely carved from a stone of pale green hues, an avian axe god, the lower section a nice celt for

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 600 to 1200 CE; southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, ca. 250 to 900 CE. A fine selection of 5 hand-carved stone celts from ancient Mesoamerica. First are

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Mexico and Guatemala, Maya Territories, Late Classic, ca. 550 to 900 CE (darkest piece); Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 1 to 800 CE (pales

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. Finely carved and string-cut, an axe-god celt in the form of an abstract bird effigy with avian beak and wings, twin tufts emerging from it

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 1 to 500 CE. A light green to almost white hard-stone celt, carved in an abstract avian form of lovely proportions, embellished with a creste

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. This is a gorgeous nephrite jade stone celt that is pecked and polished until it resembles a slender rectangular panel. The ce

**Originally Listed At $150** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 1 to 800 CE. A mottled grey, white, and black hard stone, smoothed and carved from a celt (hand axe) form into a godly fig

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A hand-carved stone axe celt depicting a transforming shaman with both human and jaguar feature

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 1 to 500 CE. A stunning celt pendant carved from a jade stone of brilliant dark green hues with subtle inclusio

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. An enigmatic standing figure, hand-carved from a mottled pale-green stone with beige and dark inclusions. The form is tapered

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Linea Vieja, Atlantic watershed, ca. 200 to 500 CE. Absolutely stunning example of stone-work! Carved, drilled and string cut deep green translucent omphacite jade in the fo

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Linea Vieja, Atlantic watershed, ca. 200 to 500 CE. Absolutely stunning example of stone-work! Carved, drilled and string cut deep green translucent jade celt in the form of

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste-Nicoya, ca. 250 to 800 CE. A gorgeous jade stone pecked and polished into a thin flint-like pendant in the shape of a miniature celt with a suspension drilled fro

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya, ca. 1 to 500 CE. Lovely jade celt in avian and crocodilian form carved from opaque greenish-gray stone. Sharpened blade on lower section, avian beak, string cut ridg

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste / Nicoya region, ca. 200 to 600 CE. Carved from a jade stone of sage green hues, an avian axe god, the lower section a nice celt form, t

**Originally Listed At $150** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 1 to 800 CE. Finely carved from stone of deep blue-green hues with white inclusions, a celt-shaped bead, drilled laterally

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Guanacaste-Nicoya, Atlantic Watershed Zone, ca. 300 to 700 CE. Carved from a single piece of volcanic stone, a mesmerizing deity or male shaman wearing a crocodile mask, sta

**Originally Listed At $4500** Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed region, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. An enormous flying panel ceremonial metate, expertly carved from a sing

Central America, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed Region, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A very large flying panel metate (or Royal Throne) sculpted out of a single piece of volcanic rock, with a characteristical