Olmec Blackware Duck Effigy Vessel, TL Tested

**Originally Listed At $1200** Pre-Columbian, Central Mexico, Las Bocas, Olmec, ca. 700 to 300 BCE. A delightful ceramic vessel in the form of an endearing duck. The duck sits upon its petite feet, wh

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, ca. early to mid 2nd millennium BCE. A hand-built blackware pottery pitcher exhibiting a round but stable base, a carinated

**Originally Listed At $1000** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A fascinating black stirrup vessel depicting the mythical episode of the hero deity, Ai Apaec, fight

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican / Lambayeque culture, ca. 1000 to 1350 CE. A striking hand-built blackware pottery vessel on a corseted foot bearing a register of impressed stepped and triangul

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 Greece, Athens, ca. 5th century BCE. A sleek black-glazed terracotta vessel, in a characteristic alabastron profile, featuring a flat and stable footed base, a slender piriform body with two t

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

Native American, southwestern United States, New Mexico, Pueblo II / Pueblo III (Anasazi) period, Tularosa, ca. 875 to 1050 CE. A charming, hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a seated duck with

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-

**Originally Listed At $1000** Pre-Columbian, southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec culture, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A graceful blackware bowl with thick walls incised with a minimalist, linear decoration.

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

Ca. 202 BC - 220 AD.A polychrome terracotta figure of a duck, with lifelike legs. It has colourful feathers, a red head with wide-open eyes, and a cream-coloured beak. This bird figure is a type of Mi

Ca. 202 BC - 220 AD. A rare pottery duck. The bird is standing on its stylised, well-defined bronze legs which support a globular body and elegantly slender neck terminating in a black-coloured head w

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

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A finely hand built Colima redware vessel in the form of a duck, very large in scale with rich color and a wonderfully burnished finished. Ta