A very attractice pottery bowl with the typical corset / convex shape, Ica / Chincha bowl, pre-columbian, 1000-1476 AD.

Probably made locally under Inca overlordship. The ornamentation of this Ica-Chincha vessel is geometric, and it brings to mind a woven textile pattern and surface.

Size: 12,8 cm. in diameter and 4,8 cm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, intact with a few minor glaze chips to the rim.

Ancient, Pre-Columbian, Zapotec - Oaxaca, ca. 700 BC–200 BC, a pottery vessel of a bulbous form with a loop handle.

CONDITION: In good condition showing its age and use patina, minor chips, some spots with traces of paint. No repairs or restorations...

Antique Pre-Columbian ceramic vessel that features a unique design with a head and arms molded in relief. The vessel stands on three legs, adding to its distinct appearance. It is made of ceramic and is a testament to the skilled craftsmanship of the ancient Pre-Columbian civilization...

Ancient Pre-Columbian unusual effigy vessel with a burnished surface, Mesoamerican civilization, circa 300 BC-400 AD, Nayarit region.

The bulbous body of the object is decorated with a band of incised patterns, and the bottom is pierced with a hole in the center. The top features a handmade figurine of a man seated with crossed legs, holding a vessel for cocoa drink, known as Xocolatl, in both hands...

A fine and completely intact small pottery vase, Pre-Columbian Inca Empire, Chancay culture.

Squat form with twin handles and decorated in black glaze.

Size: 10 cm.

Condition: Choice with nice patina.

Ex. Old Danish Collection

A fine and coletely intact small pottery vase, Pre-Columbian Inca Empire, Chancay culture.

Globular form with handle, tags from a very old 19th. century European collection on the belly!

Size: 10,4 cm.

Condition: Choice with nice patina.

Ex. Old Danish Collection

Impressive pottery stamp seal carved with 4 birds (Flamingos?) over a geomethric panel, Pre-Columbian, Chancay, 12th.-15th. century AD.

The stamp is completely intact and massive! There's a projecting spike on the back.

Size: 10 cm. wide and 5,1 cm. tall.c. 5 cm. deep.

Ex Old Danish Private Collection collection, aquired in the 1980s.

A fine larger 'Pilgrim-flask style vessel, Pre-Columbian, Chimú culture, c. 900-1300 AD.

Very attractive with twin handles and the belly decorated on both sides with a mythical animal inside a stepped pyramide.

Size: 17,5 cm. tall.

Condition: Very fine for type. Some possibly slight restoration around the neck and a small pin hole, othervise intact.

Provenance: Ex Helene Ferro Collection, aquired before 1968!

Interesting little lot of pre-columbian pottery antiquities, ca. 600-1200 AD.

Lot consists of a nicely engraved spindlewhorl, a cure and intact pottery bird whistle, a stone head and a scarce pottery mould for casting a head.

The head is ca. 7 cm. wide for comparison.

Ex. Old Private Collection since the 1970s.

A lovely large textile weight or Spindlewhorl, Pre-Columbian, Andean? ca. 600-1200 AD.

A very unusual size and with beautiful engravings of birds, unresearched and of old collection.

Diameter: 48 mm. wide (diameter) and ca. 2 cm. thick. Weight: 42,44 grams.

Ex. Old Danish Collection

Central America, Costa Rica, ca. 800-1200 AD.

Bird-shaped with a function of a flute or ocarina once and also a vessel. In ceramic with redish glaze and decorated with incised lines.

Size: 11 cm. long and 10 cm. tall.

Condition: Very nice and intact, with smaller chips / losses to details.

Ex. German Collection, 1972-1994

Pre-Columbian, Chimú culture, c. 1000-1400 AD.

Finely preserved - the lines on the face are just lines from the making in the mold. A moldmade blackware pottery flask, molded as the face of a 'Sungod' with human features, above a sun symbol and on the backside another sun-symbol or a depiction of the sun with rays. Tall spout protruding from his head. Decorated with starshaped dotted pattern.

Size: 16,2 cm. tall...

Mexican Pre Columbian Tlatilco Terracotta group lot . Head and animal pieces. fragments from an early culture c 1200bc-600bc. Tlatilco is noted in particular for its high quality pottery pieces, many featuring Olmec iconography. Tlatilco figures were known for their elaborate hair styles. This is the more unique pieces in the collection Size 1-2" high

Mexican Pre Columbian Tlatilco Terracotta group lot . Fine double face head . fragments from an early culture c 1200bc-600bc. Tlatilco is noted in particular for its high quality pottery pieces, many featuring Olmec iconography. Tlatilco figures were known for their elaborate hair styles. This is the more unique pieces in the collection Size 1-2" high

Mexican Pre Columbian Tlatilco Terracotta group lot . Head and animal pieces. fragments from an early culture c 1200bc-600bc. Tlatilco is noted in particular for its high quality pottery pieces, many featuring Olmec iconography. Tlatilco figures were known for their elaborate hair styles. This is the more unique pieces in the collection Size 1-2" high

Mexican Pre Columbian Tlatilco Terracotta group lot . Head and animal pieces. fragments from an early culture c 1200bc-600bc. Tlatilco is noted in particular for its high quality pottery pieces, many featuring Olmec iconography. Tlatilco figures were known for their elaborate hair styles. This is the more unique pieces in the collection Size 2.5" by 2.5" for ball like bird figure.

An early Chimú blackware stirrup pottery vessel, ca. 700-900 AD.

A nice and attractive vessel with small monkey on the spout, no decoration.

Size: 25 cm. tall.

Condition: Superb for type.

Provenance: From prominent Danish private Collection. Formerly in the Preben Christiansen Collection, Frederiksberg Denmark (died 2006). Collected during his time as a guide in central-South America in the 1960s-1970s.

A scarce pottery vessel with fine decoration, Peru, pre-columbian period, Chimú, ca. 900-1200 AD.

Attractive vessel decorated with zoomorphic feline creature one one side and a warrior on the other. Nice 'dot' decoration on the surface on both sides, single spot and one handle at the side.

Size: 16-17 cm.

Condition: Choice and intact, short and almost invisible thin hairline on one shoulder, no repairs or losses...