Villanovan Blackware Vessel w/ Spiked Handles - TL Test

Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 10th to 8th century BCE. Stunning pottery vessel with deep brown slip bulbous base thin neck with flared rim and most strikingly twin spiked (cornuta) handles a

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

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Moche, Phase IV, 450 to 600 CE. A fierce portrait vessel depicting a warrior with veristic facial detailing including a protruding nose, bulging cheeks, wide eyes,

Ancient Near East, Holyland, Bronze Age, ca. 2100 to 1100 BCE. An elegant pottery vessel presenting a narrow, flat base, a conical bottom, a wide, carinated hip, a gently rounded shoulder that tapers

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, 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, 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

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

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

**Originally Listed At $250** Pre-Columbian, coastal Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A beautiful blackware vessel featuring a globular body with a horizontal band of relief step fret wave de

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

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, late Chavin, ca. 600 to 400 BCE. A wonderful hand-built blackware bridge vessel presenting a two-tiered shape that incorporates zoomorphic and architectural elements i

**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

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

Native American, Southwestern United States, Arizona, Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan), Chaco style, ca. 975 to 1150 CE. A lovely pottery vessel formed via the coil and scrape technique with a globular bo

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Lambayeque Valley, Middle Sican-Lambayeque culture, ca. 900 to 1100 CE. An impressive, mold-made blackware stirrup vessel comprised of a flat base, flared walls, a carina

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A splendid mold-made pottery vessel featuring a unique form in the shape of 6 gourds lined in 2 rows of 3 with a high arching handle and

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican/ Lambayeque, ca. 800 to 1100 CE. A blackware stirrup vessel on a corsetted round foot, with a globular body, a slightly tapered spout, and a strap handle, the bo

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A delightful pottery vessel exhibiting a wide hip, a rounded shoulder, a stirrup handle, and a tubular spout, all sitting upon a narrow,

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche III, ca. 400 to 500 CE. A wonderful blackware pottery vessel with a rounded base, globular body, an arching stirrup handle, and a tubular spout. The body display

Unusual Meso-American "Blackware" Pottery Vessel Quadrapod Based w/ Effigy Projections on the Base of the A Strap Handle, Cracked and Neatly Repaired, Shows Evidence of Antiquity, 9" Tall 7" Dia.

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Messapia, ca. 4th century BCE. This is a bulbous terracotta vessel with a pronounced rim, disc foot, and with twin curved handles on the shoulder. The color is a beige/c

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A charming, hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a deer with a bulky body surmounted by a stirrup-shaped handle and cylindrical