Rare Nazca Polychrome Pottery Bird Vessel

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel in the shape of a charming avian creature, perhaps a qu

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca (Nasca), 300 to 700 CE. This is a stirrup vessel with two small spouts and a wide strap handle. The body of the vessel is covered in colorful painted depictions of

Pre-Columbian, Panama, Gran Cocle, ca. 500 to 600 CE. A polychrome pottery jar with a delightful form of a bird - possibly a harpy eagle. Molded extended beak and bulging eyes with raised feathers to

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. This is a polychrome kero (quero), a vessel placed into a Nazca tomb, ringed with a fantastical design of mushrooms and what looks like corn

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, probably Phase 3 to 4, ca. 200 to 450 CE. A charming pottery vessel in the form of a bright bird that sits perkily at attention, its head up, its beak out, above a

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

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 1st to 5th century CE. A petite, hand-built pottery bridge spout vessel with a pair of white-winged guan birds painted across its cream-colored exterior. The vessel's b

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a spherical form with a series of intricate, abstract faces presented in hues of burgundy, lavender, tangerine

**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, South Coast Peru, ca. 250 BCE to 250 CE. Tweet, tweet, tweet! An endearing polychrome terracotta effigy vessel in the form of a bird perched upon two feet and an outspread tail with a s

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 CE. A beautiful polychrome terracotta vessel of a round-bottomed globular form with a double spouted stirrup handle, the body finely decorated with four

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a gorgeous piece that exemplifies many of the classic hallmarks of the Nazca people's distinctive pottery. This is a polychro

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 2nd to 4th century CE. A beautiful, hand-built polychrome vessel with a rounded base, gently rounded walls, and a pair of cylindrical spouts with a short st

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 600 CE. A fantastic pottery bowl hand-painted with the image of a bird catching a fish. The long neck and webbed feet suggest a waterfowl such as a c

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. A nicely preserved, hand-built pottery vessel of a relatively spherical form bearing a stylized anthropomorphic effigy along the front fa

**Originally Listed At $400** Ancient Near East, Anatolian, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. A lovely and rare polychrome vessel from a culture much better known for its grey schist statues and stelae. The for

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 400 to 500 CE. A polychrome beaker hand-built from a rounded bottom, resolving in gracefully curved walls. The surface decoration is divided into horizontal

A Nazca Polychrome Terracotta Bird Stirrup Vessel Peru, Circa 300 A.D. Height 6 1/2 inches. Property from the Private Estate of Jean Claude Ferrand, Paradise Valley, Arizona Provenance: Simpson's Auct

Nazca, Peru ca. 200-600 AD. A polychrome pottery olla decorated with opposing large birds having stylized trophy heads incorporated in the wings and bodies. Perforated lug handles and collared rim. Di

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of a round-bottomed form with a flared rim and a globular body. The highly burnished exterior displays a register of

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Huari/Wari, ca. 700 to 1000 CE. An exceptionally large terracotta enema vessel painted in cream and black on red with a schematic design program, perhaps representing four contigu

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A fabulous polychrome effigy vessel of a generally globular form depicting a highly-decorated male shaman who holds ceremonial implements in

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. A fabulous polychrome effigy vessel of a generally globular form depicting a highly decorated male shaman who holds ceremonial implements in

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 205 BCE to 125 CE. A hand-built and highly-burnished human effigy vessel of a seated man with a quasi-cylindrical body and a p