Huari / Wari Polychrome Kero - Trophy Heads

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Middle Horizon period, Nazca or Wari (Huari), ca. 5th to 9th century CE. A kero (quero), a cup in the form of a trophy head with corn stalk (maize) details. The head is clearly de

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, South Coast, Huari / Wari culture, ca. 6th to 10th century CE. A fascinating textile fragment that may have been part of a garment or funerary wrapping mad

Pre-Columbian, South Peru, ca. 125 to 250 CE. A Nazca ceramic kero rising from a round-bottomed base, its elegant silhoutte displaying a soft curve on the lower body. The surface decoration is organiz

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. A large, well-preserved Nazca polychrome kero (also quero or qero). It is in the form of a disembodied head, probably representing a trophy h

Back at auction due to fraudulent bidder from 6/2/2016 sale… Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a deep, flared beaker known as a kero (or quero), which was m

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 to 540 CE. A polychrome flared round bottomed kero with extremely thin walls that present an intricately painted iconographic program. The uppermost reg

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built pottery kero with highly burnished surfaces painted with vibrant polychrome pigments. The vessel features a round but stable bas

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery drinking vessel known as a kero (also quero) with a band of co

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast of Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 500 to 800 CE. An attractive kero or cylindrical beaker with flaring sides, a vessel popular when Wari and Tiwanaku dominated the central and sout

Re-Offered due to non-paying bidder Pre-Columbian, Central Coast of Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 500 to 800 CE. An attractive kero or cylindrical beaker with flaring sides, a vessel popular when Wari and Tiw

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A polychrome, decorated terracotta kero or drinking vessel of a gracefully tapered form, painted on each side with an abstract frontally po

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 400 CE. Polychrome Nazca Kero in Trophy Head Form. A flared vessel in the form of a trophy head with a relief nose and wearing a tump-line headband o

Ancient Pre Columbian Wari Polychrome Kero Vessel c.500-800 AD. Size 6 1/4 inches high. 4 1/2 inches wide. Central coast, Huari/Wari. An attractive kero or cylindrical beaker with flaring sides and fo

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Peru, Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A hand-built drinking vessel known as a kero (also quero) in the shape of a right foot with a dramatically

Peru, central coast SA, Circa 100 to 400 AD. Nicely rendered in bold colors with feline headed deity spread across vessel and holding a trophy head bounty. He wears a garment across body with a lovely

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A polychrome pottery drinking vessel (kero) with a slightly corseted body, a flaring rim, and a gently rounded base. Around the exter

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A beautiful and brightly painted jar with twin spouts and a flat strap handle. Twin frogs sit facing each other from either side of the h

Pre-Columbian, Huari (Wari), coastal Peru, ca. 700 to 1000 CE. This is an anthropomorphic polychrome beaker depicting a jaguar's head with open mouth and exposed fangs; the jaguar has painted markings

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 700 to 1000 CE. An exceptionally large terracotta enema vessel painted in cream and black on red with a schematic design program, perhaps representing four contigu

Pre-Columbian, Peru (south coast), probably Middle Nazca, Phase 5, ca. 450 to 550 CE. One of the most striking vessels I've seen from the Nazca! A kero (quero), a cup in the form of a trophy head with

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Atlantic Watershed, Costa Rica, Nicoya or Guanacaste region, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A wonderful pottery vessel in the form of a trophy head decorated with war pain

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 to 540 CE. An interesting Nazca head jar, the lower portion of the vessel of a rounded form resolving to a sharply constricted upper end below a gently

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A fabulous ceramic "trophy head" vessel with a round but stable base, gently tapering walls, a deep int

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, Ca. 125 to 250 BCE. A polychrome terracotta vessel with thin walls and a rounded bottom, adorned with a register of abstract trophy head variants in hues of red