Two Veracruz Pottery Whistles - Creature & Human Head

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz (Vera Cruz) culture, ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A set of two fine pottery musical instruments, one a whistle and the other an oc

Ancient Pre Columbian Vera Cruz Pottery Whistle Figure c.550 AD. Size 4 inches high. Unusual Hollow Pottery Figure with Bird Body and human head painted in black. Condition: perfect. Provenance: from

Ancient Pre Columbian Vera Cruz Pottery Whistle Figure c.550 AD. Size 4 inches high. Unusual Hollow Pottery Figure with Bird Body and human head painted in black. Condition: perfect. Provenance: from

Mexico and Central America, circa 1st millennium A.D. Consisting of a large Veracruz head, two standing figures, two whistles, three smaller fragmentary figures, three small pots, and two decorated bo

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

NEW LOWER START PRICE… Pre-Columbian, Vera Cruz, Mexico, ca. 400 to 700 CE. Such an amazing and disturbing piece that it is difficult to describe! A human head, with face painted black with the clas

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Veracruz, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. A finely rendered human head with naturalistic features and a large headdress, this is instantly recognizable as being from the Veracruz culture

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz culture, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A fascinating ceramic whistle in the form of a seated man wearing a large round pectoral, two huge round earrings, and a crest

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Vera Cruz, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A striking terracotta whistle modeled to depict the head of an elaborately decorated warrior who wears a grand headdress featuring a bird whose fac

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz, Remojadas, ca. 600 to 900 CE. An exceptional terracotta figural whistle depicting a musician standing atop two attenuated legs and holding a drum in his

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz, Remojadas, ca. 600 to 900 CE. An exceptional terracotta figural whistle depicting a musician standing atop two attenuated legs and holding a drum in his

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Jamacoaque culture, ca. 500 CE and Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. The larger is a figural whistle from the Jamacoaque culture with a bulbous head an

Three Pre-Columbian pottery heads; possibly of Veracruz; each with moulded and incised detailing; H: 5 1/2" (tallest, approx.); two with wood stands; one mounted to marble

6th-7th century A.D. A figural pottery whistle formed as a stylised human-animal hybrid being constricted by a snake; composed of two stub forelegs and a tail; tapering, hollow-formed body with oval m

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, ca. 500 BCE to 100 CE. Very rare pottery chalice from the Gungala region. Shallow bowl sits atop a a flared foot, a human head in high relief on two sideswith coffee bean eyes,

Finely painted with multicolor all over the vase, decorated with foo lions in low relief around the bulbous body. Flanked by two creature head on the swelling shoulder. H: 14 1/2 in.

Each jar is beautifully decorated with panels of aquatic scenes and phoenix around the bulbous body. Flanked by two creature heads on the swelling shoulder, with a flaring mouth. Four-character mark o

TRIBAL: Five Inuit carved black stone creatures, no signatures viewed, all imaginative/ otherworldly creatures including frog with tiny wings, bear with human head, two with long tails, and one creatu

Of chipped and dark green color. With a bulbous body and a tapered neck, two raised creature heads on the shoulder as handles. H: 14 3/4 in.

Pre-Columbian, Colombia/Ecuador, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An intriguing terracotta ocarina depicting two animals - one end with the long-beaked head of a avian creature, the other with the long nose and f

Group of four Pre-Columbian pottery figures, including: standing female figure of the Autlan culture, Jalisco; two fragmented figures, possibly of Veracruz; together with head and torso of possible ba

A funerary model of a well-head with panels decorated with real and auspicious animal, circa 206 B.C. Front panel has mythological cat creature with two attendants and animal figures on top and bottom

An important Veracruz head from Mexico, ca. 600-900 A.D. This monumental size head would have been part of an incensario figure dedicated to the god Chaac. The realistic expression on the face is stri