Chancay Pottery Whistling Stirrup Jar, ex-Sothebys

Pre-Columbian, central coast of Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. This is a double-bodied whistle vessel with pedestal feet, circular bodies, wide strap handle, tall tapering spout, one side

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1200 to 1400 CE. A wonderful, naturalistic depiction of a long-beaked bird standing atop a spotted eel. A tall, thin spout rises from the middle of the eel's

Originally listed at $950... Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A hand-built pottery stirrup vessel presenting a pair of upright, discoid chambers resting upon fl

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 CE. A musical whistling bridge-spouted, double-chambered vessel adorned in a hue of pale yellow. Mold-made, the fascinating vessel features two circul

Ancient Egypt, Pre-Dynastic Period, Naqada II, ca. 3400 to 3200 BCE. A hand-built earthenware vessel of a globular form, the body decorated throughout with red pigment in a series of vertical panels f

**Originally Listed At $950** Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1000 CE. A musical whistling bridge-spouted stirrup vessel created by the Chancay culture. This example features a

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Viru, ca. 300 BCE to 100 CE. A Viru bichrome whistling vessel in the form of a sweet monkey or transitioning dwarf/shaman with simian features, an arched tubular bridg

**Originally Listed At $750** Ancient Southeast Asia, Thailand, Ban Chiang, Udon Thani province, Baan Pulu people, ca. 300 BCE to 200 CE. A beautiful example of Ban Chiang pottery presenting a charact

Height: 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm.) Circa 1200-1100 B.C., Late Helladic period Ex. J. Bowman collection, Massachusetts, 1960's The handles and body of this jar are painted with a light brown slip, contras

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase III, ca. 300 to 450 CE. A charming pottery stirrup vessel featuring a pair of fighting jaguars upon a globular vessel. The cats wrestle each other with op

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, Moche I period, ca. 100 to 550 CE. An amazing mold-made pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a warrior. The stirrup emerges from his lower back and t

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Vicus, ca. 300 to 500 CE. Globular bodied vessel with a spout opposite a seated pan pipe player figure; both joined by a bridge handle. Traces of umber resist desig

344. Description: Peru, Ca 1000 to 1200 CE Small storage jar nicely decorated. 6” x 6”. Provenance: Ex Brining Collection, collected some 40 years ago. Condition: Ware as expected, but generally i

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A delightful pottery, double-chambered stirrup vessel featuring an intricately formed cacique and still producing a high-pitched whistl

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chavin, ca. 900 to 200 BCE. One of the earliest types of stirrup vessel, from the "Classic Chavin" period, as it represents the early mono-colored stirrup vessels found in the mou

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche IV (Classic Period), ca. 550 to 650 CE. A large-chambered stirrup vessel with a wide spout, a stirrup handle that flares out as it meets the body of the vessel, and a flat b

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 400 CE. Large and quite wonderful pottery stirrup vessel. In generally circular form with front molded with slightly raised shoulders and squared lower

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche II, ca. 300 to 400 CE. This elegant vessel portrays a spotted duck, skillfully modeled and decorated with a bichrome red and cream finish and textured wings and

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche/Mochica, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A polychrome whistling stirrup vessel with one of the two bowls in the form of a standing parrot, its realistic curved beak partially

**Originally Listed At $1250** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche I, ca. 100 to 200 CE. A figural stirrup vessel in the form of a conical-headdressed warrior. The warrior is kneeling, and wears a

Ancient Greece, Mycenaean, ca. 1500 BCE. A wheel-made pottery stirrup jar of a classic Mycenaean form with a bulbous body, a flat foot, conjoined twin handles, and a side spout. The vessel is comprise

India, 3rd-5th century AD. Of ovoid form, the sloping shoulder decorated with a band of 23 seal impressed plaques depicting equestrian figures, pairs of rampant animals in combat, and pairs of single

**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

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 400 CE. An evocative double chambered vessel, featuring a thin, tall stirrup handle and spout, one gourd-shaped chamber, and another figural chamb