Rare! From Central Peru, Ca 1400 AD. Solid sheet of silver formed to go over a wooden kero which evidently has since decayed leaving only this cover. Unadorned silver with wide rim and base, base with holes for attachment. 2-7/8"H x 2-1/2"D at widest, intact and generally excellent, save a bit of erosion to base.
Pre-Columbian, from west coast of Central America, Costa Rica/Panama, ca. 700-1500 AD. A depletion gilded tumbaga lizard or frog with beaded design/band on back. 1-1/4"L, intact/excellent condition. 18g. With holes on each side for suspension. Rattle is intact/works! Perfectly wearable ancient art.
Nazca, Southern Peru, Ca 200 to 400 AD. Polychrome pepper bowl – could have actually been used to hold peppers for the meal. 5-1/2"D x 3-3/8"H, intact/generally excellent, save some surface pitting and minor pigment wear, as shown.
Provenance: Ex-private Sarkisian Estate, Denver, CO. ...click for details
From southern Peru, Nazca culture, ca. 200 - 400 AD. Polychrome pottery oviform flask with smiling faces intertwined with snake/serpent-like creatures encircling. "H, intact.
From Northern Peru, Moche I, ca. 200 A.D. Pottery leg vessel having a stirrup spout, depicting a leg bent at the knee. Some faded traces of a multi ring decoration. Scattered mineral deposits on the surface. 5-7/8”H. x 7-1/2”W, small repaired hole in the knee with several restored hairlines extending from the hole, with four toes re-attached with some loss along the breaklines, several repaired pock marks. ...click for details
Pre-Columbian, Peru, Ca. 1000-1200 A.D. An anthropomorphic pottery urn in the form of a rather rotund human, having a cream ground and black painted linear decoration. 7"H, a few minor flakes and minor rim chip, otherwise intact.
Provenance: Ex-private East Coast USA Collection. ...click for details
Pre-Columbian, Peru, Chancay culture, ca. 1000-1200 A.D. A standing figure depicted with a pointed head and wearing a coca bag on his back, decorated belt around his waist. Stands just under 7"H, left side of head point restored, chips on both feet.
Provenance: Ex-private East Coast USA Collection. ...click for details
Pre-Columbian, from the Guanacaste Nicoya area of Costa Rica dating ca. 1000 - 1500 AD. Decorated pottery bowl sits upon three hollow, avian-shaped rattle legs (rattles in place and working!). Colors are still bright and true. 6"D x 3-1/4", inner rim chip and minor rim roughness, else intact.
Guanacaste / Nicoya Region of Costa Rica, ca. 1 to 400 AD. Dark green jade / jadeite pendant with string-cut features. The name "ax god" comes from the form of the pendant, which replicates the shape of the traditional stone. Custom stand. Jade measures just under 4"L, intact/excellent.
Pre-Columbian, from Southern Peru, Ca 200 to 400 AD. Nice example of the Nazca pottery skills! Tall kero in the form of a human face - decorated in typical Nazca pigments of brown, red and tan. Nose in relief and it is apparent this example does not depict a trophy head as the mouth has not been sewn shut. 5-3/4"H, intact/excellent!
