Guanguala ocarina

Brown terra cotta. Guanguala, Ecuador, 500 BC - AD 500. 11,5cm

Fine Pre-Columbian pottery ocarina or pipe, Probably c. 1000-500 BCE, carved with fine detail, surmounted by a reclining effigy, on custom acrylic museum mount, 2.25"h x 2.25"l x 1.5"w (excl. stand) P

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Manabi, Bahia culture, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. A mold-made pottery ocarina in the form of a standing figure atop fused legs, with a mouthhole atop the bulbous head, and keyholes

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**Originally Listed At $900** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Jalisco, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An incredibly rare and wonderful pottery flute (ocarina) in the form of a pair of frogs. The larger frog is sh

Brown terra cotta. Taïronas, Santa Marta region, Colombia. AD 800-1500. 11,5x7cm. Provenance : Sold after successive inheritance, collection made between 1920 and 1930, bought to Charles Ratton, Pari

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Veracruz, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A fabulously spooky blackware pottery skull ocarina, its ghastly hollow form delineated with optic and nasal cavities, realistic indentations above

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Manabi Province, Bahia culture, ca. 5th to 1st century BCE. A hollow-built pottery female figure that doubles as a playable ocarina. Highly burnished and adorned with black, re

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Jamacoaque (Jama Coaque) culture, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. A hand-built pottery ocarina in the form of a standing female figure, her arms extended out from her sides with open pa

This instrument in G from around 1900, made of porcelain with floral decoration, has 8 finger holes and a brass key on the upper side and 3 finger holes on the lower side. There is a pitch regulator i

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An incredibly detailed ceramic ocarina in the form of a jaguar-masked shaman with a massive, crescent-shaped headdress and twin serpents

Pre-Columbian Rare Jalisco Pottery Ocarina -2 Frogs, 300 BCE - 300 CE. The ancient musical wind instrument, a type of vessel flute in the form a large frog supporting a smaller frog, either hitching a

A Pre-Columbian ceramic ocarina. Cilla-Ginga, Southwest Columbia, c.1200-1500 AD. Formed as a shell, painted with red and black polka dots on a buff ground. Resist decoration with high burnished slip

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Manabi Province, Bahia culture, ca. 5th to 1st century BCE. A delightful, hollow-built, pottery female figure that doubles as a playable ocarina, enveloped in liberal remains o

Pre-Columbian, Caribbean/Florida, Arawak People, Taino, ca. 15th century CE. A very rare ceramic ocarina, still playable, and in the form of an anthropomorphic head, square at the top, with a mouthpie

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Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An impressive - still playable! - pottery conch shell musical instrument with a blow hole at one end. Among the many finely modeled pottery f

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

Pre-Columbian, Ecuadorian, ca. 5th to 15th century CE. A charming pottery whistle in the form of a spondylus shell with protruding nodules depicting the spikes of the shell and a blow hole and mouthpi

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, Ecuador, Manabi Province, Bahia culture, ca. 5th to 1st century BCE. A lovely, mold-made pottery ocarina in the form of a female shown standing with legs toget

**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, Highlands Colombia, Nariño Complex, ca. 1250 CE. This is an elaborately sculpted shell shape in reddish brown with a human face atop the shell. There is also a geometric, incised desig

Pre-Columbian, Mayan Territories, probably Jaina Island or Yucatan coast, ca. 550 to 900 CE. Rare and delightful pottery whistle in the form of a male standing rabbit. Big floppy ears, hands to "knees