Tairona Jaguar Effigy Vessel, Gold Alloy (800-1200 CE)

Tairona Jaguar Effigy Vessel, Gold Alloy (800-1200 CE). Tairona votive double jaguar effigy vessel. Dual shamanic imagery, listening and attack characterizations. åÊFinely detailed. Made from gold a

Pre-Columbian, Central America, Costa Rica, Guanacaste-Nicoya, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. An impressive polychrome jaguar effigy vessel that seamlessly blends the animorphic body of the mighty jaguar and the

Seven small Pre-Columbian ceramic items, including: one Toltec beaker (600-1200 C.E.); one Nicoya effigy vessel (800-1200 C.E.); one Jalisco turtle vessel (c. 100 C.E.); one Cocle Fruiteria miniature

Pre-Columbian Greater Nicoya pottery vessel with protruding jaguar head, Costa Rica, circa 800-1200 CE, natural pigment-decorated with madder red and black, the dun-colored gourd-shaped body and flari

Pre-Columbian Greater Nicoya pottery vessel with protruding jaguar head, Costa Rica, circa 800-1200 CE, natural pigment-decorated with madder red and black, the red clay gourd-shaped body and flaring

**Originally Listed At $7500** Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A jaguar effigy metate depicting the wild feline standing on all fours with a broad, slightly convex b

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast of Peru, Chimu, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A mold-formed blackware pottery vessel depicting a charming llama head with a large opening on the top. A rope halter is strapped aroun

**Originally Listed At $400** Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A hand-built pottery jar depicting a squatting anthropomorphic figure. The rounded base boasts a pair of low

Pre-Columbian, Central Coast Peru, Chancay, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A fabulous mold made terracotta effigy vessel in the form of a man with a deer! This is a rare depiction of a shaman or hunter resting o

Pre-Columbian, Chancay culture, Peru, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A fabulous bi-chrome earthenware egg-shape bodied effigy vessel, the figure's head depicted on the neck of the vessel with bulging coffee-bean

Pre-Columbian, Chancay culture, Peru, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. An endearing bi-chrome earthenware egg-shape bodied effigy vessel, the figure's head depicted on the neck with bulging coffee-bean shaped eyes

Pre-Columbian, Costa Rica, Atlantic Watershed, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A very nice example of a jaguar effigy metate depicting the wild feline standing on all fours with a broad, slightly convex back/tabl

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A truly beautiful gold pendant, part of a group of hollow gold and tumbaga figures known as the caciques, chieftains, which are some of th

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A truly beautiful necklace composed of 107 carved greenstone seed beads, 13 rock crystal spacer beads, and 6 twenty karat gold tube beads.

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. A huge, hollow gold ring made to be worn through the nose. The pre-Columbian Tairona, a group of chiefdoms i

Gold Tairona Human Effigy Pendant, 800-1600 CE, with display stand. Figure measures: 2.25'' x 1.75'' x 0.75'' (6 x 4 x 2 cm). Weight: 19 grams. Provenance: The Estate of Mary Bert Gutman, Pennsylvania

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. An endearing 12 karat gold pendant in the form of a seated toad with a broad, flattened, triangular head and a rounded body. A small loop

Pre-Columbian Chimu Silver Alloy Royal Diadem & 2 Rings (ca. 800-1200 CE). The Chimu worshiped the moon, and silver (preferred over gold by their culture) was thought to be tears of the moon. The 6&rd

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, probably Tairona, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. An impressively delineated and quite sizeable, hollow-cast 12 karat gold figural pendant, depicting an elite individual - perhaps a caziq

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 800 to 1200 CE. Chalcedony and quartz beads interspersed with sixteen gold beads shaped like feline claws. The pre-Columbian Tairona, a group of chiefdoms

An exceedingly rare type of Pre-Columbian Mixtec effigy rattle vessel from ancient Mexico, ca. 1200-1350 CE. Measures approximately 6-7/8"; tall by about 5"; deep. The form of the vessel was painstaki

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chimu/Inca, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A spirited blackware pottery effigy stirrup vessel in the form of a jaguar standing squarely on all four paws with a curled tail. The wild cat's e

Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A beautiful tumbaga (alloy of gold and copper) ornament with a highly abstract zoomorphic design with tightly coiled swirling designs mad

**Originally Listed At $125** Pre-Columbian, Colombia, Tairona culture, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A beautiful tumbaga (alloy of gold and copper) ornament in a highly abstract zoomorphic form of a seated fr