Nazca Polychrome Kero - Snakes & Severed Heads

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. This is a deep, flared beaker known as a kero (or quero), which would have been used to hold the fermented maize drink chicha. The exterior i

Back at auction due to fraudulent bidder from 6/2/2016 sale… Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a deep, flared beaker known as a kero (or quero), which was m

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. This is a polychrome deep bowl (kero or quero) with a rounded body and a flaring rim. The exterior is ringed with a row of figures holding tr

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 BCE to 125 CE. A wonderful, thin-walled pottery vessel, painted with an abstract textile-inspired pattern of interlocking snakes delineated in red and c

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A fabulous canteen of an enormous size that is hand-built from pottery with highly burnished surfaces and intricate decorations paint

Pre-Columbian, South Peru, ca. 125 to 250 CE. A Nazca ceramic kero rising from a round-bottomed base, its elegant silhoutte displaying a soft curve on the lower body. The surface decoration is organiz

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. A large, well-preserved Nazca polychrome kero (also quero or qero). It is in the form of a disembodied head, probably representing a trophy h

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. This is a deep, flared beaker known as a kero (or quero), which was made to hold the fermented maize drink chicha, manioc, or potatoe

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 to 540 CE. A polychrome flared round bottomed kero with extremely thin walls that present an intricately painted iconographic program. The uppermost reg

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built pottery kero with highly burnished surfaces painted with vibrant polychrome pigments. The vessel features a round but stable bas

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast of Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery drinking vessel known as a kero (also quero) with a band of co

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 400 CE. Polychrome Nazca Kero in Trophy Head Form. A flared vessel in the form of a trophy head with a relief nose and wearing a tump-line headband o

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. An attractive pottery kero adorned with a hand-painted motif of a vertically undulating band resembling a snake in hues of black, burnt orang

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Late Nazca, Phase 6, ca. 550 to 750 CE. A delightful pottery vessel in the form of a stylized portrait head comprised of several horizontal b

Peru, central coast SA, Circa 100 to 400 AD. Nicely rendered in bold colors with feline headed deity spread across vessel and holding a trophy head bounty. He wears a garment across body with a lovely

Pre-Columbian, Nazca culture, Peru South Coast, ca. 100 to 400 CE. A polychrome pottery drinking vessel (kero) with a slightly corseted body, a flaring rim, and a gently rounded base. Around the exter

Two Nazca Polychrome Bowlsc. 400-600 AD One, a truncated "kero" type with upper ba

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 to 300 CE. A truly spectacular vessel with some of the finest paint we have ever seen. This is a flaring kero (also quero) painted with the mythica

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. A wonderful pottery kero presenting a corseted body and tall, flared neck that leads to a broad rim, all sitting u

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. An impressive pottery kero presenting a rounded base and tall walls that taper inwards to a circular rim, all meticulously hand-painted in hues of burnt

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 300 to 500 CE. A fine, slip-painted terracotta vessel, of a round bottomed form with a flared rim, depicting a wide register that contains two depictions of

Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 800 CE. An intriguing hand-built pottery drinking vessel known as a kero, painted with figures in hues of black, red, orange, beige, and white. The

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 250 to 540 CE. A wonderful polychrome terracotta kero (also spelled quero, qero, qiru) vessel boasting an impressively painted iconographical program, the e

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 1 to 700 CE. A tall ceramic drinking cup or kero of a tall and undulating form, extensively decorated with registers comprised of figural motifs in hues of