Wonderfully Macabre Veracruz Pottery Skull Ocarina

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Veracruz, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A fabulously spooky blackware pottery skull ocarina, its ghastly hollow form delineated with optic and nasal cavities, realistic indentations above

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Veracruz/Vera Cruz, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A fabulously spooky pottery skull, its ghastly hollow form delineated with both optic and nasal cavities, realistic indentations above the

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 Skeleton Clay Pottery Figure, Macabre Veracruz Pottery. Performed a moisture test and the absorption rate is a few seconds. Estimated more than 400 yrs old. Pre-Columbian era incorporate

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz. Wonderfully detailed Vera Cruz pottery head fragment, with elaborate hair detail, large earspools and remains of chest show the figure wore a necklace. C

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, southern Mexico, Veracruz / Vera Cruz region, ca. 400 to 600 CE. Pottery head from a sonriente, clearly depicting the most characteristic aspect of the sonriente, a wonderfully amusing

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

**First Time At Auction**Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz culture, ca. 500 to 700 CE. An amazing, tall, hollow, buff ceramic figure with incredible iconography. The figure - who is of ind

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Veracruz culture, also known as Totonac (Totonaca), Remojadas, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A superb, life-size, pottery head of a dignitary coated in stucco and rendered in a highly real

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

Pre-Columbian, Veracruz, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. This is a buff clay pottery standing smiling-faced figure in an animated posture with both hands extended. He is adorned with a triangular headdress, ea

Fine Pre-Columbian pottery ocarina or pipe, Probably c. 1000-500 BCE, carved with fine detail, surmounted by a reclining effigy, on custom acrylic museum mount, 2.25"h x 2.25"l x 1.5"w (excl. stand) P

Pre-Columbian, Gulf coast of Mexico, Veracruz, ca. 600 to 800 CE . Very thin hollow-molded pottery standing female figure with very finely detailed long hairdo. Wearing a headdress and long layered ga

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Manabi, Bahia culture, ca. 500 BCE to 500 CE. A mold-made pottery ocarina in the form of a standing figure atop fused legs, with a mouthhole atop the bulbous head, and keyholes

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast of Mexico, Veracruz (Vera Cruz), ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A sizable example of a pottery woman acting as a coast watcher. Her seated pose and slight forward lean keep her o

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 (also Vera Cruz) culture, ca. 400 to 700 CE. An exceptional handmade pottery figure of a priest standing on a platform, which would have been carried duri

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Veracruz culture, ca. 6th to 8th century CE. Dressed in a 'quexquemitl' or triangular smock and skirt, and wearing a tall feather headdress, the hand-molded figure stands in a c

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

A rare and fine example standing about 15".This lot, and more forthcoming. are from the estate of a true antiquity connoisseur in every sense of the word. This antiquarian truly enjoyed the treasures

LARGE PRE-COLUMBIAN VERACRUZ POTTERY HEADLarge Mexico Pre-Columbian (Veracruz) moulded pottery head; the spade form head with a large smooth forehead, rolled lids and unarticulated pupils, a strong no

Pre-Columbian Veracruz Pottery Figural Whistle. Provenance: Cowan's, Cincinnati, OH, April 6, 2018, Lot 393; Sotheby's Arcade, New York, NY, December 13, 2005, Lot 86. Size: 13.75'' x 8.25'' x 5'' (35

100% of the Buyer's Premium of all lots sold in this auction will be donated to Community Food Share by Artemis Gallery. $1.00 = 3 meals! **First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, southern Mexico to