Rare Veracruz Pottery Iguana w/ TL Test

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Veracruz culture, ca. 6th to 8th century CE. A fascinating ceramic figure, showing someone who appears to be starving, with three deep grooves dug into the skull, one hand raise

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A wonderful pottery trumpet with an anthropomorphic figure forming the bell. The trumpet is hand built from a red terracotta and painted with

Shantung Province, China, Longshan Culture, ca. 2600-2000 BC. An elegant tripod ewer with mammiform legs and an upraised beak spout, rope decoration encircling the body. Oxford TL test (documentation

East Asia, Japan, Jomon Period, ca. 14,000 to 300 BCE, coming with a TL Report showing it was fired/ produced around 4,000 years ago. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form wi

Ancient East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 BCE. A hand-built pottery jar of a tall and slender form exhibiting fine patterning and ancient charm. The vessel presents with a planar base, a c

East Asia, Japan, Middle Jomon period, ca. 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE, most likely about 4,500 years old. A sizeable, hand-built terracotta vessel of an elegant form with a flat base, a gently tapering body

Near East, Persia (Iran and Turkey), Kashan or Nishapur, Medieval Period, ca. 1200 CE. A gorgeous pottery pitcher resting on a ring foot and covered in bright, turquoise blue glaze. The pitcher is mol

Africa, Niger and Burkina Faso, Bura, ca. 300 to 800 CE. Among the oldest terracotta sculpture from Sub-Saharan Africa, a characteristically hollow Bura head with a beguiling countenance. Although eve

Native American, Southeast or Midwest, Mississippian, ca. 900 to 1300 CE. A gorgeous coil-formed Bell Plain pottery jar boasting a tiered and rounded base, a globular body, and a broad neck that stret

Southeast Asia, Northeastern Thailand, late Ban Chiang culture, ca. 200 CE. An elegant pottery jar of minimalist form comprised of a bulbous body, a corseted neck, and a flared spout. The red clay ext

Near East / Western Asia, Persia (Iran), Nishapur area, ca. 9th century or slightly later CE. An early example of Nishapur's ground breaking pottery, a pitcher with a white ground and black fine line

Ancient Near East, The Levant, Syro-Hittite culture, ca. 1580 BCE. A charming hand-built pottery effigy of a bird with its wing's outstretched upon a pedestal with a flared base. The bird is simply de

**First Time At Auction** Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A tall orange-hued terracotta vessel with a large flared body resting upon a solid rin

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche, Phase V, ca. 600 to 750 CE. A mold-formed stirrup vessel featuring a flat base and bulbous body depicting a charming frog, perhaps a toad, with a curious look on its face.

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast Mexico, Veracruz (Vera Cruz, also Totonac or Totonaca), Remojadas, ca. 300 to 600 CE. An impressive example - in both size and skill - of a warrior standing atop delineated l

Eastern Europe, Neolithic Period, ca. late 4th to early 3rd millennium BCE. A hand-built ceramic vase with a petite circular base, a widened body, tapering walls, and a flared rim. The exterior of the

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast Mexico, Veracruz (Vera Cruz), ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A wonderful hollow-built pottery male figure seated with crossed legs and wearing a small loincloth, his rigid postur

Pre-Columbian, Central/North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 600 CE. A handsome, mold-made figural stirrup vessel in the form of an owl with a well-executed minimalist motif painted in alterna

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A beautiful gourd-shaped stirrup vessel in varying shades of russet and burgundy red. The vessel is set on a flat bottom and features

Near East, Islamic, post-Sasanian to Abbasid period, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A marvelous and quite massive pottery jar of rare form, intricately hand-painted in scrolling, floral, and geometric patterns a

Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan / Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A finely-detailed terracotta example of some of the earliest decorated pottery in central Asia. This is a short,

Pre-Columbian, south coast of Peru, Nazca to Huari transition period, ca. 500 CE. A charming mold-formed pottery jar featuring a flat base, a rotund body, a wide neck, and a cylindrical mouth bearing

A Large & Rare Chinese Han Dynasty Painted Pottery Jar with Oxford TL Test. This wide-bodied jar has been expertly decorated in a variety of cold-painted pigments. Geometric and swirling cloud pattern

East Asia, China, Tang Dynasty, ca. 618 to 907 CE. Large and very rare style of Tang pottery horse with accompanying TL report confirming the age. Made of molded clay and highlighted in added pigments