Mississippian Quapaw Spouted Vessel, TL Tested

Native American, Midwestern / Southern United States, Arkansas, Crittenden County, Beck, Mississippian Culture, ca. 1500 CE. An impressive pottery vessel boasting a rare form with an elongated, conica

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche culture, Moche III, ca. 450 to 600 CE. Wonderful pottery stirrup vessel painted in shades of brick-red and off-white. Procession of standing sea birds walk along co

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche IV, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A large, flat-bottomed, ovoid bichrome terracotta stirrup-spouted vessel with fine-line painted russet brown

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec culture, Monte Alban III, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A magnificent ceramic vessel in the form of a seated god, Cocijo or Cociyo, the god of rain and lightning, wearing a

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Jequetepeque River region, Chavin culture, Tembladera phase, ca. 1200 to 1000 BCE. A fabulous ceramic vessel depicting two fisherman sitting atop a pair of cylindrical

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

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

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A delightful bi-chrome stirrup vessel in the form of an iguana. The stirrup rises from the lizard's back, capped by a short, perfectly formed

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

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca or Guerrero region, Mixtec culture, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A gorgeous, hand-built pottery vase of a sizable form bearing a wide, conical foot surmounted by a tall, tapered

**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 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

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 1st century BCE to 2nd century CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a relatively spherical form with a round but stable base, sloped shoulders, and a stirrup-

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

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

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 650 CE. A hand-built and impressively well-preserved stirrup vessel presenting a dignified male figure seated wit

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

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

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

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Moche, Phase III to IV, ca. 400 to 600 CE. Nicely executed pottery stirrup vessel decorated with variant of the Moche God of the Underworld Ai A

South Asia, Indus Valley, Harrapan / Mohenjo Daro, ca. 2200 to 1800 BCE. An enormous wheel-thrown pottery chalice with repeated black striations highlighting the shoulder and upper end of the flared f

South Asia, Indus Valley, Pakistan, ca. 2000 BCE. Very fine and extensively decorated, a polychrome pottery cup on a short foot, adorned on the exterior walls with twin birds, one gracing each side, a

**Originally Listed At $3000** Native American, Southern United States, Mississippi County Arkansas, Quapaw culture, ca. 1300 CE. A fabulous red on white pottery vessel, with a globular body and short