Rare Colima Pottery Whistle/Flute

Pre-Columbian, West Coast Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An incredibly unusual musical instrument from ancient Mexico! Pottery with red burnished finish further enhanced with incised decoratio

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A tall, hollow-cast redware terracotta warrior figure with a nicely burnished surface. The male warrior is hunched over, standing on two broa

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fantastic ceramic whistle in the form of a ballplayer, shown wearing a heavy yoke, with the body decorated with a

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A charming, hand-built terracotta figure depicting a seated male aristocrat in front of a reclinitario. The man has

**Originally Listed At $700** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A very nice example of a seated, flat-style ceramic figure. The figure wears a skirt, armbands, and a necklace

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE/CE. Rare pottery vessel in "envelope" form. Thin pouring jar with slightly flared rim with red slipped exterior decorated on each side with square incis

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE/CE. Very rare and very attractive pottery whistle in the form of a dancer. Legs and arms spread wide, rattle in each hand, applied loin-cloth and long s

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. So rare, this fine pottery whistle represents a miniature seated redware shaman! He wears the classic shaman's horn on his forehead and a fan

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A lovely, hand-built terracotta flat figure reclining on a raised, integral platform. The figure wears an intri

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fascinating ceramic figure depicting a pregnant woman with a hunched back. Hunchbacks make frequent appearances in the art of the shaft tom

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. An oddly compelling vessel in the form of a huge insect or arachnid, perhaps a tick based on the shape of the body but with only six legs - m

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A unique vessel in the form of a bent leg terminating in a foot, with a round-mouthed open spout at the other e

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. The ancients of the Americas created beautiful musical instruments out of pottery, most adorned with animal or human figurines, and the indig

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. I love this guy! A hollow pottery vessel in the form of a jaguar with a large conical spout on its back. The jaguar has an open, snarling mou

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A beautiful hand-built pottery turtle vessel with a highly-burnished surface, lustrous red slip coating, and wonderful z

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built redware pottery sculpture of an incredibly rare form composed of two emaciated canines that are conjoined a

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, possibly Jalisco or Nayarit culture, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A rare pair of pottery foot vessels, each having a stylized human face molded onto the front of the cyli

Pre-Columbian, West Coast Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE/CE. Exceptionally rare pottery processional grouping! Four figures stand in conga line, first figure playing his flute while 3 figures behind plac

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fascinating and rare pottery vessel featuring a rectangular cuboid form with an ovoid spout that rises from one s

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A rare example of a Colima bowl bearing a band of incised glyphs around the exterior rim. The glyphs take the forms of Xs, boxes, and stepped

Pre-Columbian Colima Pottery Shaman Whistle, West Mexico, c. 300 BCE - 300 CE. Redware figure of a seated hunchback shaman with horn on his forehead and fanciful headdress. Provenance: Artemis Gallery

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built and highly-burnished pottery vessel of a large form with a rounded base, a wide, tapering body with two projecting elements, and

Pre-Columbian, West Mexican, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A pottery double whistle / flute in an abstract form of a flute player, the body is comprised of 2 hollow cylinders and the mouthpiece is se

This is a rare Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima idol, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A flat pottery ginger bread type figure with a crème colored slip and obvious dendrite mineral deposits. The Idol measur