Inca Bichrome Pottery Urpu

**Originally Listed At $350** Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1200 to 1532 CE. A hand-built vessel known as an urpu or an aryballos with a broad, piriform body atop a petite base, a pair of st

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1400 to 1532 CE. An extensively decorated polychrome vessel called an aryballos due to its similarities to Greek vessels of this s

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1438 to 1533 CE. An exemplary aryballos-shaped pottery vessel known as an urpu, hand-built and painted with hues of burnt sienna, grey, and black on a light ora

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Central Highlands Peru, Inca, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A hand-built pottery vessel with a footed base, a multi-lobed, crescent-shaped body with a spout on one end,

**Originally Listed At $600** Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1438 to 1533 CE. An aryballos-shaped pottery vessel known as an urpu, hand-built and painted with polychrome pigments. The bell-sh

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1438 to 1533 CE. A hand-built, aryballos-shaped pottery vessel known as an urpu that presents with a series of vertical, red-painted bands across the obverse. T

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An impressive figural vessel depicting a highly decorated dancer/shaman wearing a black mask that presents a dramatic visage with bold featur

Cypriot, ca. 750 - 600 B.C. Ornamented with broad and narrow bands, the neck framed with geometric ornament. Light buff slip with red and black paint. A wide red band towards mid section surrounded by

Southeast Asia, Thailand, Ban Chiang, ca. 1st millennium BCE. An elegant amphora of an impressively grand scale with a sinuous profile and rounded bottom as well as an intricate red on cream painted d

Drinking Buddies! Here's to good friends! Pre-Columbian, central Peru, Inca, ca. 1400 to 1500 CE. An unusual Inca vessel of a lovely bi-chrome finish in hues of red and cream depicting two individuals

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca, ca. 1300 to 1500 CE. A remarkable pottery stirrup vessel featuring the Andean god Ai Apec as the corn god. Portrayed traditionally with feline eyes and jaguar fangs, the dei

Ancient Greece, Cyprus, Cypro-Archaic I Period, Type IV, ca. 700 to 600 BCE. A lovely pottery jar presenting a flat, circular base and a rounded shoulder that dramatically tapers to a conical neck and

Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 600 CE. A most unusual bi-chrome terracotta vessel that clearly demonstrates the potter's love of geometry. The squat, rounded body is adorned by four

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 hand pai

South Italic, Peucetian, ca. 650 to 500 BCE. A very fine and large bichrome pottery krater from Peucetia (with Bari and Ruvo as its centers) of a grand scale and an elegant form with twin angular appl

Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Chorrera, ca. 9th to 4th century BCE. A skillfully executed human effigy vessel with characteristic voluminous, rounded forms and a relatively minimalist aesthetic when it come

Southeast Asian, Thailand, Ban Chiang, ca. 300 BCE. A beautiful bichrome pottery storage vessel, the rounded body remarkably resembing a near perfect sphere with a short neck and gently flared rim, al

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca, ca. 1500 CE. A sizeable blackware vessel depicting a standing figure with an excited countenance comprised of bright open almond-shaped eyes, a triangular nose, and a toothy

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 1470 to 1532 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery aryballos with a stylized anthropomorphic head comprising the ne

Cyprus, Levant Iron Age II, ca. 900 BCE. An impressive and large Cypriot amphora of an elegant form starting from the ring foot, to the globular body with attached twin loop handles, giving way to a n

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca, ca. 1400 to 1533 CE. A splendid and sizeable pottery jar displaying a bulbous body, a slender, conical neck, and an annular rim, all sitting upon a round yet stable base. En

**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

Pre-Columbian, Peru, northern coast, Moche, ca. 500 to 800 CE. Attractive ample pottery jar in the form of a sitting toad with large conical spout atop his back. Redware vessel highlighted in much add

East Asia, China, Neolithic Period, ca. 3000 to 2000 BCE. A beautiful, large, ceramic urn decorated with a complex black and red geometric pattern around the shoulder, neck, and down the body. Two tin