Etruscan Ornamental Antefix - Woman's Head - TL Tested

**Originally Listed At $600** Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro civilization era, ca. 2600 BCE. This is a fine anthropomorphic head, hand molded with a dark gray nearly black hue. Th

Ancient Near East, The Levant, Jordan, Neolithic / Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age, ca. 4000 BCE. This is a pottery head of an idol figure, hand built and shaped with an elongated and conical profil

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A remarkable pottery "trophy head" vessel featuring a bulbous body that tapers to a brief neck and a flared, annula

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 1150 to 500 BCE. An evocative terracotta head from an larger figure. The head has distinct child-like features charact

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit culture, ca. 300 BCE to 200 CE. A fascinating pottery head of an animal featuring stylized characteristics of raised, target motif eyes, a slender nasal bridge that

Pre-Columbian, Central Highlands, Mexico, Mixtec culture, ca. 800 CE. Exceedingly rare set of four portrait heads done in heavy gray pottery, then finished in red and white added pigments. Each is car

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of a voluminous form with a round but stable base, a compressed spherical body with a central carination, and a tall, flared rim

**Originally Listed At $3500** Classical World, Italy, Etruria, Latium, ca. 480 BCE. A mold-formed terracotta antefix head of a female, perhaps a goddess. The well-rendered face features a protruding

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Moche, Phase III to IV, ca. 350 to 700 CE. A wonderful pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a portrait head with prominent face tattoos embellishing the chin, upper l

**First Time At Auction** Southeast Asia, Thailand, Ayutthaya period, ca. 15th century CE. A beautiful and serene example of a cast-bronze Buddha head. The face is wonderfully-expressive, with downcas

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 800 CE. A superb example of a portrait vessel featuring the head of a lord or warrior. He has a strong wild-eyed gaze and a prominent septum piercing

**Originally Listed At $400** Central Asia, north Indian subcontinent, Gandhara, ca. 300 BCE. A delightful terracotta relief of the head of a man, perhaps a prince, presenting an expressive countenanc

Ca. 525-500 BC A large Etruscan amphora by Micali painter with double sided panels of black and red sirens are beautifully rendered as well as looming pairs of eyes and accented in ivy. The actual nam

A nicely detailed Etruscan terracotta head of woman, c. 3rd - 2nd Century BC, depicted veiled with nicely detailed facial features and great eye appeal. H: 5 2/5 in (13.7cm). Heavier and more substant

Classical World, Etruria (Central Italy), ca. 600 BCE. A terracotta bust in the classic Etruscan style, presenting a bust of a woman with an attractive visage comprised of delicate and strikingly natu

Ca. 202 BC–220 AD. Han Dynasty. A hollow-formed terracotta cream-coloured rhinoceros shown standing four-square with a well-cast head with two horns of different length, rose-coloured ears pric

Tang Dynasty, Ca. 618-907 AD A large and beautiful hollow-moulded terracotta horse, modelled in a standing pose on a square base. The horse's head is facing gazing forward, with its ears pricked forwa

Northern Wei Dynasty, Ca. AD 386 - 534. A terracotta ox painted with black pigments. The animal is depicted to be standing, with its head facing downwards. It has been made with lifelike details on th

Ca. 202BC - 220AD A huge Chinese pottery model of a guard dog in a seated position, facing forwards with head alert and ears pricked up. The dog wears an elaborate harness and a collar.This piece has

Chinese Tang prancing horse with custom case, TL tested period Tang Dynasty, (618 CE-907 CE), naturalistically modeled with the right leg raised, the mouth open, and the head turned slightly to the le

Ca. 202BC-220AD.A huge pottery model of a guard dog in a seated position, facing forwards with head alert and ears pricked up. The dog wears an elaborate red harness and a collar. The dog is the eleve

Classical World, Northern Italy, Etruria, ca. 3rd century BCE. A beautiful mold-made terracotta votive with details reworked via a modeling tool in the form of a youthful female's head which faces sli

East Asia, Japan, Middle Jomon period, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. A large, deep, conical urn made using the coil method, the clay mixed by the woman who made it (women produced all ceramics in this culture

Tang Dynasty, Ca. 618-907 AD An earthenware mingqi of foreign rider on a horse modelled in a standing pose. The rider depicted with body facing outwards towards the horse's head, his head turned sligh