Olmec Blackware Effigy Vessel Duck Form, 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

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Olmec, ca. 900 to 500 BCE. A hand-built grayware pottery vessel in the shape of a full-faced duck. Incised striations on either side of the body represent

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

Pre-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 predators

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu/Inca, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A spirited blackware pottery effigy stirrup vessel in the form of a jaguar standing squarely on all four paws with a curled tail. The wild cat's e

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima culture, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. An endearing and voluminous, burnished two-tone redware double duck effigy vessel, the form comprised of co-joined ducks, each with p

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A cute burnished two-tone redware double duck effigy vessel, the form comprised of co-joined ducks, each with p

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

A pair of cute Colima black-ware effigy vessels, West Mexico, c. 100 BC - AD 200, the first in the form of a seated figure wearing a turban-style headdress, hands at sides of head and the body of the

CHIMU BLACKWARE HUMAN EFFIGY VESSELPeru, human form pottery vessel. 9.75"' height

Chimu blackware effigy stirrip vessel, Northern Peru, Early Chimu (pre 1200 A.D.), an owl holding a snake in its beak surmounts the compressed ovoid form, the detailed crab figure molded on both right

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 500 to 800 CE. A charming mold-formed pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a duck afloat on the water. Boasting a lustrous

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, 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, central coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A hand-built grayware pottery jar of a broad form. The vessel features a ring-shaped foot with dozens of incised notches, a spherical bod

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

Near East, Iran, Achaemenid Empire, ca. 550 to 330 BCE. A terracotta rhyton (ceremonial drinking or libation vessel) in the form of a boot with curved toe in the form of a skillfully delineated mythol

Fired clay. Pre-Columbian America, Chimu, approx. 13th cent. (TL-tested) A unique and rare vessel incorporating animal form, showing the creature as it is giving birth to an offspring! The animal, pre

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

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, 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