Inca Stone Ceremonial Vessel w/ Snakes

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Inca, ca. 1400 to 1533 CE. A fine hand-carved stone ceremonial bowl featuring high relief snakes across the sides. The vessel's body has a rounded but stable base, the

**Originally Listed At $550** Pre-Columbian, South America, Argentina, La Aguada/Aquada culture, ca. 700 to 1000 CE. A hefty storage vessel with a flat base and a generally triangular body, hand-carve

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished redware pottery bowl with large, coiling snakes decorating the exterior walls. Each se

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 600 BCE. This is an incredible hand-built pottery vessel that is molded with raised serpents on the midsection. The deep umber brown vessel

2 carved wooden vessels. One is carved and will not hold liquid unless it has a liner. The other is a two-toned wooden container with a snake on the lid. Beautiful antique Chinese containers.

Donated By: Donick Cary, Emmy-Award winning writer/producer (Letterman /Simpsons / Parks and Recreation /Silicon Valley) Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, ca. 500 to 800 CE. A round, grey, igneous stone meta

Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 300 to 500 CE. Large and amusing pottery bridge-spouted vessel in the form of a shaman intertwined with 12 snakes. On his lap are 4 snakes in sha

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Inca, ca. 15th to 16th century CE. A hand built pottery vessel with a carinated body resting on a short foot. The stirrup spout handle has a small monkey perched to th

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Huari (Wari) culture, ca. 500 to 1000 CE. A fantastical polychrome pottery vessel featuring painted mythical and applied zoomorphic creatures. The body is a rounded shape with a s

An antique silver lidded ciborium. Features an baroque style foliate repousse with figures adoring the pedestal, with a domed lid, topped with a finial. Combined approximate weight 60 grams. No appare

Pre-Columbian, Southern Mexico, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. A fascinating pottery vessel of a tall, cylindrical form with a flat base, smooth walls, a deep basin, and a lightly flare

Chinese carved personal seal w/ snake design

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 700 CE. A fierce pottery stirrup vessel in the form of the head of Ai Apec (also Ai Apaec), the primary god of th

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chimu / Inca culture, ca. 1200 to 1400 CE. A lovely hand-built pottery vessel with a flat base, cylindrical body, a planar shoulder, an arching stirrup-shaped handle,

**Originally Listed At $925** Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca, ca. 1400 to 1530 CE. A double-spouted, double chambered brownware vessel presenting an endearing figure sitting with upraised knees atop one of

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery ritual watering vessel known as a paccha with a bulky trapezoidal body, a rounded but stable base, an

South America, North Coast Peru, Inca, early Spanish Colonial Period, ca. 1532 to 1572 CE. A fascinating, mold-made pottery jar presenting the scene of 3 figures and a monkey amongst mountains, all su

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Chinese Hongshan Style Carved Hardstone Animal-Form Ceremonial Vessel, H 3'' W 2.75'' L 6'' | Carved in the form of an eagle/owl. Provenance: From the estate of a Southeast Michigan private collector.

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, central Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 1400 to 1532 CE. A sturdy mace head of a trapezoidal form that is hand-carved from mottled dark-brown stone with beige and light

AFRICAN POLYCHROME CARVED WOOD CEREMONIAL VESSEL, H 8", W 7", L 17" Lid featuring a frowning face and turtle. Body of vessel features a kneeling male and female figure on each side with arms raised. T

Early Dynastic III, circa 2550-2250 B.C. A chlorite vessel with vertical wall and slightly convex base, dense frieze of creatures in combat; eagles with splayed limbs, grasping the serpents in its tal

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche & Chimu-Inca cultures, ca. 500 to 1500 CE. A collection of approximately 130 assorted ancient Pre-Columbian stone and silver beads strung together in modern times as a weara

This is a Pre-Columbian Costa Rican carved pale green stone ceremonial bird motif mace head. Dating to circa 100-500 A.D. This carving is accompanied by the original COA and receipt from The Lands Bey