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Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian (11)

Pottery (1)

Sculpture (7)

Unbelievable & Massive Mayan Stucco Head Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000 item# 783218 (stock# RESP08-08)
click for details		Traders Of The Lost Art $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

Expressive and Massive Xantil Figure, Ex Sotheby's Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000 item# 751537 (stock# RESP08-05)
click for details		Traders Of The Lost Art $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)
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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)
click for details		Traders Of The Lost Art $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)
click for details		Traders Of The Lost Art $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)
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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)
click for details		Traders Of The Lost Art $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

Published and Exhibited Olmec Mask with Papers! Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Stone: Pre AD 1000 item# 725158 (stock# RESP04-03)
click for details		Traders Of The Lost Art $85,000, sale $49,950
Authentic Olmec masks are one of the more difficult items to acquire. Indeed, finding one with the provenance of this lovely example are about as rare as flak jacket salesmen at a Dick Cheney Quail Hunt. From the La Blanca, Pacific Coast Region, Middle Preclassic, Ca.900-600 B.C. Greenish-black carved stone Olmec mask depicted with a squared face having a lively expression, the lips pulled tightly apart in a gentle smile showing gums, fulcrum indicated. Faintly raised lower lids and curving oval ...click for details

A Huge and Expressive Vera Cruz Priest $40,000 Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Sculpture: Pre AD 1000 item# 725155 (stock# RESP08-01)
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A simple viewing of the items offered by Traders Of The Lost Art clearly demonstrates our proclivity for offerings that evoke, not just the style, but the emotions of their creators. Indeed, we strive to assemble items that transcend the centuries and give you a view into the soul of the culture represented. Once offered in a major NY auction with a high estimate of $40,000, it's not often that a piece of this size is offered on the market. Standing a hair under 32", this wonderful arti ...click for details

Spectacular, Lg Mayan Jaguar Lidded Vessel $25,000 Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Sculpture: Pre 1492 item# 725149 (stock# RESP08-03)
click for details		Traders Of The Lost Art Reg $19750, Now $14,975
Once listed in a major NY auction house with an estimate of $20,000-25,000, this is an impressive pottery example having slightly tapered cylindrical walls molded on one side with a relief frontal view of a jaguar head and arms, displaying a ferocious, toothy grimmace and no indication of the lower body, referring to the Jaguar God. He is flanked on each side by a relief human skull, the whole niche encased by two flanges at the sides, a crimped border beneath and the heavy, flat rim above with ...click for details

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