Rare Miniature Vinca Culture Pottery Head

**Originally Listed At $200** Central Europe, Vinca culture, ca. 5700 to 4500 BCE. A miniature head with huge, round, abstract eyes and a stippled border around their rims, set into a trapezoidal, ant

**First Time At Auction** Europe, Balkan area, Vinca culture, ca. 5th millennium BCE. A rare hand-built terracotta idol of beige and brown hues with finely incised markings including eyes, facial mark

Pre-Columbian, Peru South Coast, Nazca culture, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A polychrome drinking vessel with its body shaped to look like a human head painted with elaborate geometric and abstract motifs. A s

Central Europe, Neolithic Period, Vinca culture, ca. 5700 to 4500 BCE. A delightful ceramic zoomorphic figure that was once part of a vessel. It has doubly-incised eyes and a pattern of incised triang

A rare miniature model of a real wellhead from the Christie's auction house, Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD). The piece is earthenware with an iridescent patina and a green lead glaze on the outside. It

**Originally Listed At $800** Ancient Near East, Syria, Syrian culture or early Syro-Hittite, ca. 15th to 13th century BCE. A hand-built pottery head of an idol, perhaps a worshipper, that is of consi

**Originally Listed At $350** Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Iron Age, Cypro-Archaic Period I, Cypriot culture, ca. 750 to 600 BCE. A petite pottery figure of an idol depicted in minimalist form with a point

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan culture, Miccaotli to late Tlamimilolpa Phase, ca. 150 to 350 CE. An intriguing and rare miniature pottery figurine of a seated h

Pre-Columbian, Central Highlands, Mexico, Mixtec culture, ca. 800 CE. Exceedingly rare set of four portrait heads done in heavy gray pottery, then finished in red and white added pigments. Each is car

**Originally Listed At $600** Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, northern Veracruz region, Huastec culture, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A rare, hand-built pottery vessel depicting 2 abstract heads, 1 of whic

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Middle Cauca region, Quimbaya culture, Middle Cauca complex, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An abstract anthropomorphic figure with a wide, ovoid head and a large, square torso. The pie

Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A hand-built, near-miniature terracotta bull figure with a rounded head, large horn bases, a pointed and snout-lik

Near East, Holyland, the Levant, Syro-Hittite culture, ca. 2800 to 1500 BCE. A unique pottery altar boasting a rare form comprised of 3 avian-esque goddess heads grouped together as they gaze over the

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A rare form of pottery figure from the West Mexican shaft tomb culture, in a style sometimes called "Chinesco". The figure has two heads, ea

Nazca Culture Pottery Trophy Head, fruit and Bird Panel Design Large Polychrome Bowl surface wear, reconstructed from pieces with one small shard missing. From a collection purchased in the 1960s by D

Exceedingly rare Olmec terracotta clay head / fragment of a sculpture dating back to 1100-550 BC. The creme slip is characteristic of the region of Las Bocas. The Head fragment measures 2.5 inches, on

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, ca 500 BCE to 500 CE. One of two superb and rare pottery human head sculptures. About the size of a shrunken head with open mouth, almond eyes and deeply incised features and d

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, ca 500 BCE to 500 CE. One of two superb and rare pottery human head sculptures. About the size of a shrunken head with open mouth, almond eyes and deeply incised features and d

A rare Djenne culture head fragment with elongated head with small raised eyes in oval sockets, above a triangular nose and protruding mouth, decorated with incised designs, resting on a columnar neck

A Group of Classical-Style Artifacts Comprising a Corinthian painted earthenware amphora, a miniature earthenware pottery head of a youth; a fragmentary red pottery Etruscan-style figure of a woman ho

A rare Djenne culture head fragment with elongated head with small raised eyes in oval sockets, above a triangular nose and protruding mouth, resting on a columnar neck; lightly pitted and weathered s

A rare Djenne culture head fragment with elongated head with small raised eyes in oval sockets, above a triangular nose and protruding mouth, resting on a columnar neck; lightly pitted and weathered s

REDLANDS POTTERY Rare miniature covered jar with frog, Redlands, CA, ca. 1905 Burnished earthenware Raised REDLANDS POTTERY mark 2" x 3 1/8" Provenance: Al Nobel, California Property of a New York Col

Possibly Unique Miniature Stoneware Pitcher with Cobalt Fuchsia Decoration, Incised "Clara Herdman / 1877" and "Compliments W.D.", Walter Donaghho, Parkersburg, WV, delicately-potted pitcher with tall