Moche I Pottery Monkey Effigy Stirrup Vessel

**Originally Listed At $550** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase I, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A charming mold-formed pottery vessel with a planar base, a spherical body with a bulbous shoulder, a

**Originally Listed At $1500** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche 4, classic period, ca. 400 to 500 CE. Perfect for any fan of the macabre - a bichrome pottery effigy stirrup vessel representing t

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Sican / Lambayeque valley, ca. 800 to 1100 CE. A rare pottery stirrup jar showing strong Moche influence. The male figure sits with hands placed upon upraised knees, lean

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A unique and impressive pottery stirrup vessel in the form of 2 seated monkeys with anthropomorphic features. Adorned in hues of bu

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche V, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A wonderful blackware effigy stirrup vessel representing a frog in a somewhat transitional style, the frog showing Moche stylings, the stir

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Moche V, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A classic Moche form, the stirrup vessel, with the body in the form of the transformative god Ai Apec, with a tall, black bird on one ar

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A dramatic mold formed stirrup vessel depicting a predatory scene between a bird and an eel. The brownware vessel is hand built with the coil

Pre-Columbian, central/north coast Peru, Moche, Phase II, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A finely constructed pottery vessel with a large standing owl with long talons in high relief, feathers in low relief body

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche III to IV, ca. 400 to 700 CE. A hand-made and highly-burnished pottery vessel with a flat base, a bulbous body with three-dimensional features, and a stirrup-sha

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 700 CE. A fierce pottery stirrup vessel in the form of the head of Ai Apec (also Ai Apaec), the primary god of th

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A remarkably ornate and quite impressive pottery stirrup vessel surmounted by a seated warrior, elaborately dressed and grasping a

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche III/IV, ca. 500 to 600 CE. A wonderful and touching stirrup jar in the form of a mother sea bird (comorant) with its beak down toward the baby bird at its side whil

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 700 CE. A mold-formed and highly burnished redware pottery vessel with a round but stable base, a hemispherical body surmounted by a cylind

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase I, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of squat, circular form with a compressed spherical body, a stirrup-shaped handle, and a tapered cyl

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 650 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a flat-bottomed form depicting Ai Apec, the chief deity of the Moche people. The spherical vessel be

**Originally Listed At $600** Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche II, ca. 300 to 400 CE. A molded, fine line stirrup vessel with an interesting form - its body divided into six distinct units by raised lines t

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche III to IV, ca. 400 to 600 CE. "Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love!" In the context

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. An enticing pottery stirrup vessel depicting Ai Apec - the primary deity of the Moche peoples - standing amongst a plethora of moun

**Originally Listed At $700** Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 700 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery stirrup vessel depicting a seated figure dressed in robe

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase III, ca. 350 to 500 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel bearing an unusual multi-chambered body consisting of 3 stacked pairs of spherical balls, perhaps depi

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche III, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A mold-made greyware stirrup vessel with matching relief scenes depicting a bird of prey eating a human victim, one on each side. The bird is most li

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche IV, ca. 550 to 650 CE. This is a striking mold-made portrait stirrup vessel with the shape of the body sculpted as part of the shape of the vessel (rather than painted on).

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A mold-formed stirrup vessel featuring a flat base and bulbous body depicting a charming frog, or perhaps a toad, wit

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase III to IV, ca. 350 to 700 CE. A delightful bichrome Moche pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a Muscovy duck with head ben