Huge Mississippian Caddo Grayware Vessel w/ TL Test

**Originally Listed At $1500** Native American, Midwest to Southeastern United States, Caddo / Mississippian, ca. 770 to 1270 CE. Wow! A massive hand-built gray stoneware vessel with incised decoratio

East Asia, Japan, Jomon Period, ca. 14,000 to 300 BCE, coming with a TL Report showing it was fired/ produced around 4,000 years ago. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form wi

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Moche, Phase IV, 450 to 600 CE. A fierce portrait vessel depicting a warrior with veristic facial detailing including a protruding nose, bulging cheeks, wide eyes,

Pre-Columbian, Central/North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 600 CE. A handsome, mold-made figural stirrup vessel in the form of an owl with a well-executed minimalist motif painted in alterna

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche, Phase V, ca. 600 to 750 CE. A mold-formed stirrup vessel featuring a flat base and bulbous body depicting a charming frog, perhaps a toad, with a curious look on its face.

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A beautiful gourd-shaped stirrup vessel in varying shades of russet and burgundy red. The vessel is set on a flat bottom and features

Native American, Southern United States, Mississippi County Arkansas, ca. 650 to 1150 CE. An impressive handmade pottery bowl in the form of a smooth cockle shell with a flat base and thick walls that

Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 10th to 8th century BCE. Stunning pottery vessel with deep brown slip bulbous base thin neck with flared rim and most strikingly twin spiked (cornuta) handles a

**Originally Listed At $1800** Central Asia, Bactria, ca. mid 1st millennium BCE. An elegant redware wheel-thrown pottery jar of large form featuring a circular corseted base with impressively thin wa

Native American, Southeast or Midwest, Mississippian, ca. 900 to 1300 CE. A gorgeous coil-formed Bell Plain pottery jar boasting a tiered and rounded base, a globular body, and a broad neck that stret

Ancient East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 BCE. A hand-built pottery jar of a tall and slender form exhibiting fine patterning and ancient charm. The vessel presents with a planar base, a c

East Asia, Japan, Middle Jomon period, ca. 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE, most likely about 4,500 years old. A sizeable, hand-built terracotta vessel of an elegant form with a flat base, a gently tapering body

**First Time At Auction** Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A tall orange-hued terracotta vessel with a large flared body resting upon a solid rin

Shantung Province, China, Longshan Culture, ca. 2600-2000 BC. An elegant tripod ewer with mammiform legs and an upraised beak spout, rope decoration encircling the body. Oxford TL test (documentation

Ancient Central Asia, Bactria, ca. early 2nd millennium BCE. An intriguing cosmetics vessel, hand-built from grayware pottery, depicting an abstract horse-like creature standing atop a quartet of rod-

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

Native American, Midwest to Southeastern United States, Caddo / Mississippian, ca. 1200 to 1800 CE. An exquisite, hand-built blackware vessel featuring a deep cavity and incised decorations along its

Pre-Columbian, central coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A hand-built grayware pottery jar of a broad form. The vessel features a ring-shaped foot with dozens of incised notches, a spherical bod

Native American, Southwestern United Sates, Arizona, Jeddito, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi), ca. 1300 to 1400 CE. A beautiful example of a Jeddito yellowware bowl, with iron and carbon black pigments c

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 650 CE. A gorgeous example of a pottery stirrup vessel depicting the head of a fierce jaguar. Presented in hues of citrine, burnt sienna, c

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, late Phase 1 to Phase 2, ca. 250 to 400 CE. A charming example of a hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a seated Muscovy duck. Highly burnished and adorned

Near East, Persia (Iran and Turkey), Kashan or Nishapur, Medieval Period, ca. 1200 CE. A gorgeous pottery pitcher resting on a ring foot and covered in bright, turquoise blue glaze. The pitcher is mol

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hollow, hand-built redware pottery vessel of a bulbous form depicting a charming canine covered in vibrant red and red

Pre-Columbian, Western Bolivia, Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) culture, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A wonderful, hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a flute player balancing on his stomach with his legs bent at th