Moche Pottery Stirrup Vessel, Bird Eating Eel TL Tested

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 200 to 600 CE. A dramatic mold formed stirrup vessel depicting a predatory scene between a bird and an eel. The brownware vessel is hand built with the coil

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche culture, Moche III, ca. 450 to 600 CE. Wonderful pottery stirrup vessel painted in shades of brick-red and off-white. Procession of standing sea birds walk along co

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A delightful bi-chrome stirrup vessel in the form of an iguana. The stirrup rises from the lizard's back, capped by a short, perfectly formed

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 650 CE. A hand-built and impressively well-preserved stirrup vessel presenting a dignified male figure seated wit

Pre-Columbian, central/north coast Peru, Moche, Phase II, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A finely constructed pottery vessel with a large standing owl with long talons in high relief, feathers in low relief body

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Moche, Phase III to IV, ca. 400 to 600 CE. Nicely executed pottery stirrup vessel decorated with variant of the Moche God of the Underworld Ai A

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Moche III, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A mold-made greyware stirrup vessel with matching relief scenes depicting a bird of prey eating a human victim, one on each side. The bird is most li

POSSIBLY PRE COLUMBIAN PERUVIAN DEER FORM STIRRUP VESSEL DEPICTING DEER WITH STIRRUP SHAPED HANDLE - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" (THIS PIECE HAS NOT BEEN TL TESTED FOR AUTHENTICITY)

Pre-Columbian, Peru (North Coast), Moche Culture, ca. 100 to 700 CE. This is a gorgeous intact example of one of the classic forms of pre-Columbian pottery -- the Moche stirrup vessel, using the shape

Pre-Columbian, north coast Peru, Moche, Phase III to IV, ca. 350 to 700 CE. A wonderful pottery stirrup vessel in the form of a portrait head with prominent face tattoos embellishing the chin, upper l

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 700 CE. A hand-built pottery stirrup vessel depicting a pair of elaborate bird warriors. Each avian anthropoid is outfitted with a jagua

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Moche III/IV, ca. 500 to 600 CE. A wonderful and touching stirrup jar in the form of a mother sea bird (comorant) with its beak down toward the baby bird at its side whil

Greece, Late Mycenaean to Archaic, ca. 1200 to 600 BCE. A beautiful, wheel-made, polychrome amphora in the Mycenaean pictorial style with an elegant body and equidistantly placed twin handles bridging

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Salinar culture, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. A striking ceramic stirrup vessel with a round body with flattened base, a thick stirrup handle, and a short, flaring spout

**Originally Listed At $1200** Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Salinar culture, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. A striking ceramic stirrup vessel with a round body with flattened base, a thick stirrup hand

Pre-Columbian, north coast of Peru, Moche V, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A classic Moche form, the stirrup vessel, with the body in the form of the transformative god Ai Apec, with a tall, black bird on one ar

Pre-Columbian, Central/North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 600 CE. A handsome, mold-made figural stirrup vessel in the form of an owl with a well-executed minimalist motif painted in alterna

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche IV, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A large, flat-bottomed, ovoid bichrome terracotta stirrup-spouted vessel with fine-line painted russet brown

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 450 to 650 CE. A hand-built, two chambered vessel of a flat-bottomed form with a pair of roughly spherical chambers conn

**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, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 1st century BCE to 2nd century CE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a relatively spherical form with a round but stable base, sloped shoulders, and a stirrup-

Pre-Columbian, North Coast of Peru, Chavin, ca. 800 to 500 BCE. A hand-built pottery stirrup vessel depicting a portly figure seated upon the voluminous base. The figure holds both incised arms up tow

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche III to IV, ca. 400 to 600 CE. "Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love!" In the context

A pottery stirrup vessel with birds. Northern Peru, CE800-1200. 8"h. Provenance: The Alvin M. Cohen Collection, Bethesda MD.