Nicoya Polychrome Trophy Head Vessel

**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

**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

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A remarkable pottery "trophy head" vessel featuring a bulbous body that tapers to a brief neck and a flared, annula

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 1 to 700 CE. A vibrant hand-built earthenware olla of a round-bottomed piriform shape, extensively decorated with a mesmerizing re

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

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

Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel featuring the Anthropomorphic Mythical Being (or AMB) decorated with polychrome pigments.

An antique Pre Columbian manner Costa Rican Nicoya pottery vessel. The vessel is made in the form of a trophy head decorated with war paint and wearing an elaborate headdress that doubles as the flare

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, 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

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, Costa Rica, Nicoya, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A beautiful polychrome tripod vessel comprised of a deep bowl supported by three hollow sculpted anthropomorphic heads with painted details in add

A nice Nicoya polychrome bowl from Costa Rica, ca. 1000 - 1350 AD. This fine Papagayo Variety tripod vessel is 7-1/2 in in diameter and stands on a trio of nicely detailed human heads with raised eyes

Pre Columbian Nicoya Bird Effigy Ceramic Tripod Vessel 9.5''x7.5''. Impressive polychrome decorated vessel with figural bird head effigy. One foot has been reconstructed. 1000 to 1500AD, Costa Rica.

Pre Columbian Nicoya Jaguar Effigy Ceramic Vessel 13.75''x8.5''. Impressive polychrome decorated urn like vessel with figural Jaguar rattle head. Small chip to top rim and foot, otherwise excellent co

Pre-Columbian Polychrome Pottery Vessel , 800-1350 A.D., Costa Rica, possibly Nicoya, avian head, zoomorphic designs, splayed ring base, h. 10 1/2 in., dia. 5 1/2 in Provenance: Collection of Brooke a

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Nicoya Peninsula, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. Tall and vibrantly decorated footed jar with central band of abstract zoomorphic creatures, with 6 additional bands with rope patterns

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca, ca. 500 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a squat form presenting a sizable visage across the obverse side. The highly burnished v

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 100 to 800 CE. An unusual Mochica terracotta head vessel of a pear-like shape depicting a rather grotesque trophy head, replete with wrinkles across his ent

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A Nasca Trophy Head Vessel. Pottery, pigment. 80 to 300 CE. South Coast Peru. 7 1/2" x 5 1/2". Condition: Small rim hip. Provenance: From the Boeckman Collection. Dallas, Texas. Acquired 5/4/1970 thro

A handsome Colima trophy head vessel, West Mexico, c. 100 BC - AD 200, with nice features and gorgeous mottled red-orange glossy surfaces with deposits. with 6 1/4 x 5 3/8 in (15.7 x 13.7 cm). Ex Sout