Early Central Asian Terracotta Pouring Vessel TL Tested

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, ca. early to mid 2nd millennium BCE. A hand-built blackware pottery pitcher exhibiting a round but stable base, a carinated

Ancient Near East, Holy Land, Iron Age II, ca. late 8th to early 7th century BCE. A tall terracotta beer strainer used to separate solid ingredients from the liquid inside of a larger vessel. This sie

AN EARLY CENTRAL ASIAN TERRACOTTA POTTERY MORTAR with sparse turquoise decoration. 11.5 cm x 10 cm.

Ancient Near East, Holy Land, Canaanite, Bronze Age, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. An impressive pottery vessel in the form of a bull presenting a cylindrical, horizontal body atop a pair of slender, strip-fo

Ancient Holyland, Levant, Early Bronze Age, ca. 3300 to 2030 BCE. A splendid and quite sizable pottery bowl adorned with a horizontal band of punctated dashes just below the rim. The graceful vessel p

Athens, Greece, ca. early 5th century BCE. Slender terracotta pouring vessel features long neck, cylindrical body, flared rim, on short foot. Body decorated in black-figure technique with four palmett

Late Helladic IIIB, Late 14th-13th century BC A large decorated tan color pottery vessel having a round tapered body, twin opposing strap type handles connected to a central column support having a la

East Asia, Japan, Middle to Late Jomon Period, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base. The exterior walls are adorned by incised paralle

East Asia, Japan, Middle to Late Jomon Period, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base. The exterior walls are adorned by incised paralle

East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 BCE. A graceful, hand-built terracotta vessel presenting a flat base, a cylindrical body, an expanding shoulder with a thick rim, and a perforated protrus

Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 150 to 650 CE. A stunning openwork pottery leg of a vessel of rectangular form featuring a central figure, perhaps a priest, standing in a temple. The

**Originally Listed At $2000** Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2200 BCE. A fabulous tripod vessel comprised of a hemispherical bowl

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Bronze Age, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A blackware kernos or ritualistic altar vessel, the voluminous body resting on a flared

Greece, Magna Graecia, southern Italy, Pagenstecher Class, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. A charming lekythos or oil pouring vessel exhibiting an oblong body that narrows to a cylindrical neck and then flares to

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Intermediate to Late Bronze Age, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A splendid and quite sizable grayware jar boasting a voluminous, globular body wit

Ancient Near East, Persian, Abbasid period, ca. late 8th to early 9th century CE. A beautiful, mold-formed, miniature ceramic cosmetic vessel with a flat base, a gently expanding body with a rolled sh

Ancient Greece, Athens, ca. 5th century BCE. A sleek black-glazed terracotta vessel, in a characteristic alabastron profile, featuring a flat and stable footed base, a slender piriform body with two t

Near East or Central Asia, Anatolia to Iran, Persian Empire, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A pottery libation vessel composed of a boot with a pointed tip and impressed linear marking along the upper and sol

Unguentarium, Holy Land, Roman period. early CE, the small one with foot, bulbous body, narrow neck with flared rim, 3 1/2"; the larger teardrop with flat bottom, elongated neck, flat rim, 5", the lar

Ancient Greece, early Archaic period, ca. 8th century BCE. A stunning pottery alabastron presenting a slender, elongated body of drop form that gently tapers to a brief slanted shoulder, a narrow neck

Pre-Columbian, central/north coast Peru, Moche, Phase II, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A finely constructed pottery vessel with a large standing owl with long talons in high relief, feathers in low relief body

Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro Civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A wheel-thrown pottery vessel depicting a pair of abstract large felines on the body, perhaps representing

**Originally Listed At $1200** Pre-Columbian, Central Mexico, Las Bocas, Olmec, ca. 700 to 300 BCE. A delightful ceramic vessel in the form of an endearing duck. The duck sits upon its petite feet, wh

Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A thin-walled ceramic stand of open-ended hourglass form, made for placing a vessel atop it. The body of the stand