Colombian Tairona Pottery Jar w/ Solar Deity

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. A mold-formed pottery jar of petite, tetrapod form depicting a solar deity seated on a bench adorned with 2 caiman heads. The prominent figure pr

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 800 to 1500 CE. A fine pair of mold-made ocarinas in figural forms. The larger whistle is incredibly detailed and in the form of a jaguar-faced shaman or

Pre-Columbian, southern Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec, Monte Alban IIIa, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A rare and fine example of a hand-built pottery vessel containing two conjoined cylindrical tubes with a mutual ba

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. A large pottery vessel in the form of an underworld deity. Reminiscent of pottery from the region further south into Peru where the Moche

**Originally Listed At $250** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche / Chimu, ca. 1000 to 1470 CE. A pottery jar with a human head with low relief facial features forming the bottle neck, and both sid

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Moche, ca. 400 to 800 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of sizable form depicting Ai Apec (also Ai Apaec), the traditional primary deity of the Mochica people. Adorned i

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

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Among the finest and the largest that we have ever seen, a beautiful redware vessel of an overall gourd-like form with four peyote buttons de

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

Native American, Southwestern United States, Anasazi/Ancestral Puebloans, ca. 1250 to 1350 CE. A sizable, apple-shaped jar formed via the coil-and-scrape technique displaying a wondrous linear motif i

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Guanajuato Valley, Chupicuaro, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A fine, hand-built jar with a wide, rounded base, concave walls, a deep interior cavity, and a thick, flared rim with

Native American, Southwestern USA, Colorado or New Mexico, Anasazi/Ancestral Puebloans, ca. 1100 to 1300 CE. A wonderfully formed ceramic pitcher with stylized geometric motifs in the black-on-white M

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. Like much Tairona art, this one has so many details that it will take you many viewings to see them all. A blackware vessel with an elonga

**Originally Listed At $1400** Ancient East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 BCE. A hand-built pottery jar of voluminous form with a rounded shoulder, a corseted neck, a broad, dramatically fl

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 500 CE. A beautiful, hand-built pottery jar of a sizable form depicting a register of disembodied trophy heads along the carinated midsection. The highly burnish

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Harappan/Mohenjo-Daro civilization, ca. 2700 to 2000 BCE. A hand-built pottery jar of apple-shaped form with a planar base, a rounded shou

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

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 1000 to 1300 CE. A fabulous pottery jar meticulously hand-painted with black-on-white linear and geometric motifs, and adorned

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

**First Time At Auction** Native American, Southwestern United States, Mesa Verde region, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi), ca. 900 to 1350 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of sizable, spherical form with a s

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, San-Luis-Potosi, ca. 600 to 1100 CE. A fantastic round vessel with a studded pottery body and twin handles in the form of cheerful caimans who face in opposite directions. T

Native American, Southwestern United States, Arizona, Ancestral Puebloan / Anasazi culture, ca. 1050 to 1225 CE. A delightful pottery jar presenting a planar base and impressively thin walls that rise