Rare Yortan Blackware Shoe-Shaped Vessel w/ TL

Asia Minor, Yortan Culture or related in Western Anatolia, Early Bronze Age, ca. 2700 to 2300 BCE. Made of black grey clay and fired to a glossy finish, this is a skin-bag shaped jar with fine-line in

Northern Italy, Villanovan culture, ca. 10th to 8th century BCE. Stunning pottery vessel with deep brown slip bulbous base thin neck with flared rim and most strikingly twin spiked (cornuta) handles a

Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, ca. early to mid 2nd millennium BCE. A hand-built blackware pottery pitcher exhibiting a round but stable base, a carinated

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona region, ca. 1000 to 1550 CE. A large burnished blackware double-spouted vessel with huge conical spouts that join at diagonal angles to a small, ovoid body. The body s

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican / Lambayeque culture, ca. 1000 to 1350 CE. A striking hand-built blackware pottery vessel on a corseted foot bearing a register of impressed stepped and triangul

Shantung Province, China, Longshan Culture, ca. 2600-2000 BC. An elegant tripod ewer with mammiform legs and an upraised beak spout, rope decoration encircling the body. Oxford TL test (documentation

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 700 CE. A charming, hand-built pottery vessel in the form of a deer with a bulky body surmounted by a stirrup-shaped handle and cylindrical

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, late Chavin, ca. 600 to 400 BCE. A wonderful hand-built blackware bridge vessel presenting a two-tiered shape that incorporates zoomorphic and architectural elements i

Pre-Columbian, northern Peru, Chavin culture, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A beautiful gourd-shaped stirrup vessel in varying shades of russet and burgundy red. The vessel is set on a flat bottom and features

Pre-Columbian, southern Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 400 to 600 CE. A fascinating and incredibly rare figural ceramic vessel in the form of a shaman holding serpents. The figure wears a dramatic, conical

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Lambayeque Valley, Middle Sican-Lambayeque culture, ca. 900 to 1100 CE. An impressive, mold-made blackware stirrup vessel comprised of a flat base, flared walls, a carina

Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Chimu, ca. 900 to 1100 CE. An impressive aryballos-shaped blackware vessel known as an urpu, with an anthropomorphic face as the body. The vessel has a slightly rounded b

**Originally Listed At $250** Pre-Columbian, North/Central Coast of Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 1100 to 1400 CE. A rare example of a Chimu blackware vessel exhibiting a squash-shaped body of sizeable for

**Originally Listed At $2500** East Asia, China, Han Dynasty, 206 BCE to 220 CE. An elegant, pear shaped hu vessel, the iconographic program of this piece comes to life with two taotie masks that are

Pre-Columbian, central coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A hand-built grayware pottery jar of a broad form. The vessel features a ring-shaped foot with dozens of incised notches, a spherical bod

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A delightful blackware whistle vessel in the form of 2 barrel-shaped chambers topped by a monkey on one side and a spout on the other. Cr

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A delightful blackware vessel in the form of a monkey laying atop a rectangular cube with a crescent-shaped crop in his forepaws. A slend

Originally listed at $1,500... Pre-Columbian, Central Coast of Peru, Chimu culture, ca. 850 to 1100 CE. A rare example of a mold-formed pottery vessel shaped like a pacay pod (also known as Inga feuil

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Sican / Chimu, ca. 1000 to 1470 CE. A blackware stirrup vessel molded into a multichambered body with gourd shaped sides and anthropomorphic heads at the base of the h

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chimu, ca. 1100 to 1470 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished blackware pottery vessel depicting a seated man as he plucks his chin with a set of tumi-shaped tweezer

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Campania, ca. 325 BCE. A black-glazed pottery guttos (oil pouring vessel) of a characteristically squat rounded form with a single trumpet-shaped spout, a ribbed, ring-l

Magna Graecia, Southern Italy, Campania, ca. 325 BCE. A black-glazed pottery guttos (oil pouring vessel) of a characteristically squat rounded form with a single trumpet-shaped spout, a looped handle

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Moche, Phase IV, ca. 500 to 650 CE. A gorgeous example of a pottery stirrup vessel depicting the head of a fierce jaguar. Presented in hues of citrine, burnt sienna, c

East Asia, Japan, Jomon Period, ca. 14,000 to 300 BCE, coming with a TL Report showing it was fired/ produced around 4,000 years ago. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form wi