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Unbelievable & Massive Mayan Stucco Head

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000   item# 783218 (stock# RESP08-08)

Unbelievable & Massive Mayan Stucco Head
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$19,875 

Unbelievable stucco head of the Mayan god, Kinich Ahau. In the Mayan language Kinich (K’inich) is translated as “sun-eyed” or “sun-faced” and was a word used both in Maya mythology and king’s names. The best example of this is the Maya god K’inich Ahau (which this stucco represents), “the sun-faced one” or “the sun-faced lord” – the sun god in the Maya pantheon. K’inich Ahau was the husband of the moon goddess, Ix Chel, and was closely associated with the Maya supreme deity, Itzamna – in some ca ...click for details


Fantastic Mimbres Bowl with Ancient Repair Holes

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Pottery: Pre 1492   item# 770824 (stock# RESSW-0308)

Fantastic Mimbres Bowl with Ancient Repair Holes
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$1795, sale $1475 

A BEAUTIFULLY BALANCED AND VISUALLY STRIKING LARGE MIMBRES CLASSIC BOWL! This beauty measures a full eleven inches in diameter and a full six inches high and includes two ancient repair holes more common to the Maya. It dates from A.D. 900-1250 and is fairly amazing in its complexity. It is divided into four quadrants of beautifully balanced design. The first design element that “hits” the eye is a four pointed star made up of a broad white band. On further examination you will spot four rectan ...click for details


Outstanding Mimbres Bowl with Geometric Pattern, Vivid!

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Pottery: Pre 1492   item# 770822 (stock# RESSW-0208)

Outstanding Mimbres Bowl with Geometric Pattern, Vivid!
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$1795, sale $1475 

AN OUTSTANDING WORK OF ART FROM A TRULY TALENTED POTTER. This bowl is a generous ten inches in diameter and five inches tall and dates from the Classic Mimbres period of 950-1250AD. It has been re-assembled from several large pieces and has some professional restorataion to the white center area to decrease the size of the "kill" hole and improve the outstanding visual elements of the piece. The cracks remain on the exterior of the bowl. The slip is a pure white and the black mineral p ...click for details


Splendid Tularosa Black on White with Bird

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: American Indian: Pottery: Pre 1492   item# 770820 (stock# RESSW-0108)

Splendid Tularosa Black on White with Bird
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Anasazi Tularosa Olla with Bird Handle, circa 1150-1275, 6" high X 6 3/4" across. This exquisitely designed pitcher has been broken and glued with 10-12% restoration mostly to its neck and bottom. The entire Bird Lug is original as is the surrounding neck area. There is a beautiful star pattern on top of the vessel. I love fantastic brush work and this piece has spectacular artistry. Note the wonderful scrolls in the neck. A classic Anasazi design on an outstanding vessel.


Expressive and Massive Xantil Figure, Ex Sotheby's

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000   item# 751537 (stock# RESP08-05)

Expressive and Massive Xantil Figure, Ex Sotheby's
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$11995, sale $9995 

During the last few centuries before the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the people in the Tehuacán Valley in the southeast corner of the state of Puebla near Oaxaca produced unusual ceramics. Many of these artifacts were constructed for holding incense, which most commonly was a tree resin widely called copal, and when burnt it yielded abundant smoke. Tehuacán censer covers were known as xantiles, and are in the form of seated human figures with tubelike arms and legs, and a modeled head attached t ...click for details


Splendid Mayan Jade Pectoral Pendant

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre AD 1000   item# 751530 (stock# RESP08-04)

Splendid Mayan Jade Pectoral Pendant
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Talk about museum quality and well defined image! A medium green rectangular slab type pendant carved in low relief incorporating the natural curved surface, depicting a full-bodied, standing chief wearing an elaborate feathered headdress, ear spools and beaded necklace. Belted at the waist with a tapered loincloth. Perforated for suspension. Original polished surface, intact, exc. cond. Custom metal base. The time it must have taken to produce a piece like this always amazes me when looking at ...click for details


Spectacular Jamacoaque Double Vessel

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000   item# 751526 (stock# RESP08-03)

Spectacular Jamacoaque Double Vessel
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$5995 

This is a spectacular piece! I've always found Jamacoaque figures to be very expressive. The Jamacoaque culture thrived in what is present day Ecuador. They were noted traders; with examples of their trade networks spreading from ancient Western Mexico to the North, to the cultures of present day Peru to the south. Much has been made of the connection of some of their pieces to those of Western Mexico. That is exactly what attracted me to this piece. Look at the dynamic pose, with fluid moti ...click for details


Wonderful Valdivia Idol

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre AD 1000   item# 751511 (stock# RESP08-02)

Wonderful Valdivia Idol
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$1595 

I've always liked Valdivia pieces from Ecuador. Considering that they are quite old, I think its the simplicity in design that attract me to them. What they represent, who knows? Did they represent ancestor spirits? Perhaps they represented the deceased? At any rate, this specimen is wonderful, has great size and displays well. Gray limestone, trapezoidal shaped slab figure with boldly cut features of square eyes, rectangular nose, thick neck cut and leg differentiation. As with most, some e ...click for details


Elaborate and Graceful Colima Water Bearer

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000   item# 725455 (stock# RES05-10)

Elaborate and Graceful Colima Water Bearer
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This fantastic and expressive colima male figural vessel, a pristine example of pre-Columbian sculpture, dates to the Protoclassic Period of the West Mexican sculptural tradition (100 B.C. to A.D. 250). Large hollow ceramic Standing Man , fully modeled, leaning slightly forward, supporting an open mouthed olla (or water jug) on the top of his head and carrying with a cross-hatched decorated tumpline three similar globular ollas, all with pinched necks and flaring lips; overall red-brown burnishe ...click for details


Rare Monumental Male Type A Chinesco

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000   item# 725390 (stock# RESP03-04)

Rare Monumental Male Type A Chinesco
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$97,795, sale $64,995 

A Chinesco Male Figure, Type A, Protoclassic Circa 100 BC -A.D. 250, this figure in the Chinesco style is one of a small group characterized by particularly fine workmanship; the slip is highly polished and the facial features are carefully detailed. The eyes are almond shaped and the hair is delicately incised. A necklace is painted around the neck and the face consists of black lines radiating from the center (see similar example in Pre-Columbian Art from The Ernest Erikson Collection) The fig ...click for details

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