Tall Mixtec Polychrome Vessel, TL Tested

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca or Guerrero region, Mixtec culture, ca. 1000 to 1400 CE. A gorgeous, hand-built pottery vase of a sizable form bearing a wide, conical foot surmounted by a tall, tapered

South Asia, Indus Valley, Pakistan, ca. 2000 BCE. Very fine and extensively decorated, a polychrome pottery cup on a short foot, adorned on the exterior walls with twin birds, one gracing each side, a

Pre-Columbian, Central Highlands, Mexico, Mixtec culture, ca. 800 CE. Exceedingly rare set of four portrait heads done in heavy gray pottery, then finished in red and white added pigments. Each is car

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 Peru, Moche, ca. 300 to 800 CE. A superb example of a portrait vessel featuring the head of a lord or warrior. He has a strong wild-eyed gaze and a prominent septum piercing

Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 BCE to 400 CE. A hand-built pottery cup adorned with a vibrantly colored depiction of the fierce "Anthropomorphic Mythical Being." The kero cup or bowl

**First Time At Auction** Pre-Columbian, South Coast Peru, Nazca, ca. 200 to 500 CE. A remarkable pottery "trophy head" vessel featuring a bulbous body that tapers to a brief neck and a flared, annula

**Originally Listed At $500** Pre-Columbian, Northern Peru, Inca, ca. 1400 to 1532 CE. An extensively decorated polychrome vessel called an aryballos due to its similarities to Greek vessels of this s

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

Ancient East Asia, Japan, Late Jomon Period, ca. 2000 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery vessel of a tall, sizable form with a flat base, a cylindrical body, and a flared shoulder. The body is adorned

**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

**Originally Listed At $1500** Pre-Columbian, Gulf Coast Mexico, Veracruz, ca. 3rd to 7th century CE. A gorgeous, hand-built pottery olla comprised of a planar base, tall walls, a frontal anthropomorp

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of a voluminous form with a round but stable base, a compressed spherical body with a central carination, and a tall, flared rim

East Asia, Japan, Middle to Late Jomon Period, ca. 2500 to 1500 BCE. A considerable hand-built terracotta vessel of a sprouting form with a flat base. The exterior walls are adorned by incised paralle

Ancient Near East, Holy Land, Iron Age II, ca. late 8th to early 7th century BCE. A tall terracotta beer strainer used to separate solid ingredients from the liquid inside of a larger vessel. This sie

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Nazca, ca. 100 to 300 CE. A hand-built pottery kero (also quero) presenting gorgeous abstract zoomorphic motifs across the elongated piriform body. The vessel features a round but

Pre-Columbian, Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec culture, Monte Alban III, ca. 600 to 800 CE. A magnificent ceramic vessel in the form of a seated god, Cocijo or Cociyo, the god of rain and lightning, wearing a

Pre-Columbian, North Coast Peru, Jequetepeque River region, Chavin culture, Tembladera phase, ca. 1200 to 1000 BCE. A fabulous ceramic vessel depicting two fisherman sitting atop a pair of cylindrical

Late Helladic IIIB, Late 14th-13th century BC A large decorated tan color pottery vessel having a round tapered body, twin opposing strap type handles connected to a central column support having a la

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 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

Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Teotihuacan, ca. 150 to 650 CE. A stunning openwork pottery leg of a vessel of rectangular form featuring a central figure, perhaps a priest, standing in a temple. The

**Originally Listed At $2000** Ancient Central Asia, southern Azerbaijan and northern Iran, Ardabil region, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 2200 BCE. A fabulous tripod vessel comprised of a hemispherical bowl

Ancient Near East, Holy Land, Canaanite, Bronze Age, ca. 2000 to 1000 BCE. An impressive pottery vessel in the form of a bull presenting a cylindrical, horizontal body atop a pair of slender, strip-fo