3 Valdivian Pottery Heads (From Venus Idols)

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, Formative Period, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A gathering of 3 hand-built pottery heads, each from a different type of female Venus i

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, Formative Period, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A set of 3 hand-built pottery female heads from larger Venus idol figures, each with incise

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 BCE. A trio of reddish pottery heads with thin slits for eyes, brows, and mouths, and bulbous hair. These fired clay figures were produced, starting

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 BCE. A trio of reddish pottery heads with thin slits for eyes, brows, and mouths. These fired clay figures were produced, starting at the major Vald

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A charming trio of female or Venus figures, all skillfully hand-built from pottery to present stylized forms. First, the most petite fi

**Previously Listed At $450** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A special trio of terracotta "Venus" figures, mold-made and finely detailed with petite visages comprised of deli

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, Formative Period, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built and highly burnished female pottery figure of tall and slender form known as a Venus idol. The face feat

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A pair of pottery heads that are fragments from larger figures, with impressed eyes, brows, and mouths, a

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A set of 3 hand-built pottery Venus figures depicting characteristic feminine forms with highly burnished surfaces and hues of brown an

Or Aphrodite, with original paint. Asia Minor, 4th C BCE. H 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.) Provenance: Collection of Antiquities from an important Canadian family purchased in the 1960s,70s and 80s through the Lo

Lot of 2 Ancient Judahite Pottery Idol Heads Ca. 8th-7th century B.C. Size: 1 3/4 - 2 3/4 inches high.+ stand. Salmon color solid pottery female idol heads, fragments from full figures. Great quality

Ancient Greek Thessalian Neolithic pottery idol c.6th-5th Millennium BC. Size 2 3/4 inches high. Rare Ancient Greece Thessalian pottery female Idol, missing head fragment from a full figure. Provenanc

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 BCE. A reddish ceramic figure of a woman. She has a stylized head, with thin slits for eyes, eyebrows, and mouth, and a low relief nose. Her face is

Ancient Greek Thessalian Neolithic pottery idol Torso c.6th-5th Millennium BC. Size 2 3/8 inches high. Rare Ancient Greece Thessalian pottery female Idol, missing upper body and head, fragment from a

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 BCE. A striking pottery figure with thin slits for eyes and mouth, an enormous coiffure/headdress, and a highly stylized body with elongated legs, n

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery Venus figurine of feminine form with minimalist features including a set of slit-form eyes and eyebrows. Her sligh

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian, Earliest Horizon (Early Piguigua-Late Piquigua Phase, Early Formative Period) ca. 2300 to 2000 BCE. A trio of small clay figures with faces created by incised slits

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery Venus figurine of feminine form with minimalist features including a set of slit form ey

Originally listed at $400 Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A set of 2 hand-built pottery idols from the ancient Valdivian culture. First is a miniature standing figuri

(lot of 3) Tonala burnish pottery coin banks, Mexico, modeled as human heads, with small loop handle at top, single coin slot at side, (one) marked Mexico underfoot, (one) with small hole underfoot, l

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery Venus figure of a characteristically feminine form with a slender waist and hands held b

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery idol figure, with a feminine form, it is believed that the figures were used in fertility rituals. Her arms are cr

(Lot of 3) American pottery head vases, comprising Catalina Pottery figure with fan #0803, 7.5"h; Catalina Pottery figure with scarf tied about the head #C 801, 7"h and figure wearing a small hat, sta

**Originally Listed At $800** Ancient Near East, Syria, Syrian culture or early Syro-Hittite, ca. 15th to 13th century BCE. A hand-built pottery head of an idol, perhaps a worshipper, that is of consi