Sold2023Colima Redware Pottery Bird Vessel, Ex Arte Primitivo**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima culture, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A charming pottery vessel in the form of a swallow mid-flight with wings widely spread and head lifted at aSee Sold Price
Sold2022Maya Plumbate Pottery Head Vessel, ex-Arte Primitivo**Originally Listed At $200** Pre-Columbian, Mayan region, Maya/Toltec, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. A "plumbate" pottery head vessel depicting a shaman or priest wearing an enormous tapir head headdress, hisSee Sold Price
Sold2020Maya Plumbate Pottery Head Vessel - ex-Arte Primitivo**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Mayan region, Maya/Toltec, ca. 900 to 1200 CE. A "plumbate" pottery head vessel depicting a shaman or priest wearing an enormous tapir head headdress, his faceSee Sold Price
Sold2022Fine Chavin Pottery Vessel w/ Snakes, Ex Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 600 BCE. This is an incredible hand-built pottery vessel that is molded with raised serpents on the midsection. The deep umber brown vesselSee Sold Price
2015Moche Jaguar-Form Burnished Vessel, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 400 CE. An impressive, large, and finely hand-built terracotta vessel, painted in hues of red-orange and white. The dramatic and quite animated visagSee Sold Price
Sold2022Maya Pottery Vessel w/ Bird & Snake, Ex Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A fascinating pottery vessel of a tall, cylindrical form with a flat base, smooth walls, a deep basin, and a lightly flareSee Sold Price
Sold2015Moche I Stirrup Vessel, Squash Form, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche I, ca. 100 to 200 CE. A stunning greyware stirrup vessel in the form of a succulent squash with a smooth undulating surface that could only have been created bySee Sold Price
Sold2024Style of Nazca Humanoid Pottery Vase.Style of Nazca Humanoid Pottery Vase. Size 8 inches high, 5 inches widest pint. A figural pottery vessel with strap handle decorated. Not ancient. Ex Arte primitivo.See Sold Price
Sold2016Wari Whistling Vessel w/ 4 Faces, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Wari / Huari culture, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A very unusual and striking pottery vessel molded with four faces, but using only 4 eyes. The faces alternate between menacing anSee Sold Price
Sold2023Rare Colima Redware Vessel, ex-Arte Primitivo**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fascinating and rare pottery vessel featuring a rectangular cuboid form with an ovoid spout that rises from one sSee Sold Price
2023Calima Spouted Vessel Stylized Hut, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Colombia, Calima, Ilama phase, ca. 200 CE. A wonderful pottery vessel in the form of a stylized hut or temple with a petite arched doorway, all surmounted by a pair of conical spouts anSee Sold Price
Sold2015Inca Polychrome Gourd Stirrup Vessel, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, northern Peru, ca. 1400 CE. A very finely potted stirrup vessel. Redware pottery "beer" bottle in the form of a native gourd. Long stem in added white with black stipples down top and tSee Sold Price
Sold2016Sican Blackware Stirrup Seated Elder, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, northern Peru, Sican, Lambayeque Valley, ca. 700 - 900 CE. Blackware pottery figural vessel depicting a seated elder, holding his left hand to his chin, right hand to his chest, legs crSee Sold Price
Sold2015Lambayeque Stirrup Vessel, Man/Bird, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Lambayeque, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. A wonderful blackware jar on a sloped round foot, with globular body and slightly tapered spout, the base of which is adorned with theSee Sold Price
Sold2019Moche Stirrup Vessel Ex Musee Des Beaux Arte MuseumAncient Pre Columbian Moche Stirrup Vessel Ex Musee Des Beaux Arte Museum Montreal, Canada. 1957Size 9 1/2 inches high. Peru AD 500-700.Pottery Stirrup-spout vessel with gloubular body painted with twSee Sold Price
Sold2016Recuay Cream Slip Portrait Vessel, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Peru, northern coastal region, Recuay, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. Large double-sided canteen vessel depicting a stylized human head. Wide toothy grin, face painted in reddish-brown on a creSee Sold Price
Sold2015Vicus Whistling Bridge-Spout Vessel, Ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Piura region of North Coast Peru, Vicus, ca. 400 to 100 BCE. A double chambered bridge-spout whistling vessel, the frontal chamber in the form of an anthropomorphic standing figure (perSee Sold Price
Sold2017Huari Polychrome Figural Vessel, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Central Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. An impressive anthropomorphic vessel, most likely used at ceremonial feasts given its elaborate decoration. The Huari/Wari culture used artSee Sold Price
Sold2017Huari Polychrome Figural Vessel, ex-Arte Primitivo**Back at auction due to non-paying bidder** Pre-Columbian, Central Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. An impressive anthropomorphic vessel, most likely used at ceremonial feasts given its elaboratSee Sold Price
Sold2016Rare Chimu Blackware Pottery Stingray Vessel - Ex ArtePre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. An impressive blackware stirrup effigy vessel in the form of a stingray. Sculptors of the ancient Americas depicted powerful sea predatorsSee Sold Price
Sold2017Rare Colima Pottery Warrior, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A tall, hollow-cast redware terracotta warrior figure with a nicely burnished surface. The male warrior is hunched over, standing on two broaSee Sold Price
Sold2021Beautiful Xenon Pottery Kylix, ex-Arte PrimitivoMagna Graecia, South Italic Colonies, Apulia, ca. 340 to 325 BCE. An attractive kylix presenting a classic form and a beautiful decorative program arrived at via fugitive peachy-pink pigment. The tondSee Sold Price
Sold2018Nayarit Chinesco Pottery Figure, ex-Arte Primitivo**Originally Listed At $250** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, Chinesco, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built terracotta cream-slip standing figure displaying slightly spread legs with arched feet,See Sold Price
Sold2015Chimu Blackware Bridge Vessel - Bird, ex-Arte PrimitivoPre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A double chambered bridge-spout vessel, the front chamber adorned with a near miniature bird or perhaps turtle. When intact, this piece was a whistlingSee Sold Price
Jun 02Global Auctions CompanyPre Columbian Moche/Chimu Peru Pottery, Figural Vessel with Monkey. Blackware$180