Anatolian / Yortan Blackware Tripod Pouring Jar w/ TL

Asia Minor, Yortan Culture or related in Western Anatolia, Early Bronze Age, ca. 2700 to 2300 BCE. Made of black grey clay and fired to a glossy finish, this is a skin-bag shaped jar with fine-line in

**Originally Listed At $800** Ancient Near East/Asia Minor, Western Anatolia, Yortan Culture, Early Bronze Age, ca. 2700 to 2300 BCE. A hand-built and stone-burnished blackware pottery vessel - known

East Asia, Northeast China, Middle Neolithic, Xiajiadian culture, ca. 5000 to 3000 BCE. A fascinating pottery vessel with 3 pointed legs, a long neck, and a dramatically flared rim, boasting a lovely

Pre-Columbian, Guatemala, probably Tiquisate region, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 500 to 800 CE. A lovely pottery jar exhibiting a rounded base and slanted walls that flare gently outwards to a broa

**First Time At Auction**Asia Minor, Yortan culture or related in Western Anatolia, modern-day Turkey, Early Bronze Age, ca. 3000 to 2500 BCE. A black slip-ware terracotta vessel with three thin protr

Ancient Near East/Asia Minor, Anatolia, Yortan culture, Early Bronze Age II, ca. 2700 to 2400 BCE. An enormous wheel-thrown pottery jug with a trio of conical feet, a spherical body with a tapered sho

Ancient Egypt, Predynastic period, late Naqada II to Naqada III, ca. 3200 to 3000 BCE. An enormous hand-built marl clay jar with a russet-hued surface made with a thin iron-oxide slip. The burnished v

Native American, American Southeast, Nodena Phase, Mississippian Culture, “Walls Engraved” type ca. 1350 CE. A fine example of a rare ceramic type, most likely from the Missouri/ Arkansas border a

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

Ancient Central Asia, Bactria, ca. early 2nd millennium BCE. An intriguing cosmetics vessel, hand-built from grayware pottery, depicting an abstract horse-like creature standing atop a quartet of rod-

Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A hand-built pottery tripod jar decorated with 2 incised panels depicting the head of Quetzalcoatl, each above a register of sl

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

Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel of cylindrical form with thin walls that rest atop a trio of nubbin feet. The

Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A hand-built pottery bowl atop a trio of tab-shaped feet. Decorating each half of the body is a large, incised panel containing

Ancient Near East/Asia Minor, Western Anatolia, Yortan Culture, Early Bronze Age, ca. 2700 to 2300 BCE. A unique blackware offering vessel, known as a kernos, presenting a bulbous, globular body and a

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

East Asia, Western China, Han Dynasty, ca. 2nd century BCE. An impressive, dark-gray earthenware amphora of a remarkably distinctive form. Panels of incised linear decorations adorn the neck, while ra

Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BCE. A gorgeous pottery jar elaborately incised and hand-painted with a pair of massive zebu bulls

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A wonderful blackware jar, mold-made to present a circular body adorned with elaborate relief decoration. Sitting upon a planar base, the

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chavin, ca. 900 to 200 BCE. In incredible condition, and with an accumulated silvery iridescent patina, this is a beautiful blackware bowl with a simple, elegant motif of repeated

This is a Pre-Columbian Teotihuacan style blackware pottery bowl on three feet. It features carved designs painted with red pigment. Attributed to the Mayan Culture. Dating to the Classic period, 450-

Asia Minor, Anatolia, ca. late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. A large, heavy terracotta jar with an amphora-like shape, narrowed neck, and broad, flared rim. The interior of the rim and body are pai

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche culture, Phase III, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A very finely crafted pottery stirrup jar - an early version of a beer jar used to hold chicha - mo