All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1337325 (stock #tj76)
Colima tri-pod shoulder olla 300 bc. to 300 ad. It has no restoration it is in as found condition with a couple chips out of rim. Beautiful design sharp should with 3 legs on bottom, excellent deposits. It is approx: 10"wide X 5"high. It was acquire from the McQuade estate. A Release and Disclosure" Statement will be provided. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BUYING OR MAKING A OFFER PLEASE EMAIL ME TIM JONES AT tejones0433@msn.com
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1337327 (stock #tj77)
Colima squash effigy olla 300 bc. to 300 ad., it has No Restoration and is approx: 7"wide X 6"deep. It was acquired from the Mc Quade estate. A Release and Disclosure" Statement will be provided. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BUYING OR MAKING A OFFER PLEASE EMAIL ME TIM JONES AT tejones0433@msn.com
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1337367 (stock #tj82)
It has No Restoration and is approx: 5-1/4"wide X 1-3/4"deep. Precolumbian / Mayan poly chrome bowl, b/w on buff, no restoration. it is approx: 7"wide X 2-3/4"deep. Excellent deposits. It was acquired from the Mc Quade estate. A Release and Disclosure" Statement will be provided. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BUYING OR MAKING A OFFER PLEASE EMAIL ME TIM JONES AT tejones0433@msn.com
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1337368 (stock #tj92)
Precolumbian (3) Jalisco pots ca. 1 ad. No Restoration, from left to right they are approx: bowl 4-1/2"wide X 2-1/2"deep, olla 3-1/2"wide X 4-1/2"high, olla 3"wide X 3"deep. It was acquired from the Mc Quade estate. A Release and Disclosure" Statement will be provided. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BUYING OR MAKING A OFFER PLEASE EMAIL ME TIM JONES AT tejones0433@msn.com
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1337374 (stock #tj86)
Colima vase/olla 300 bc. to 300 ad. No Restoration, it is approx: 5"wide X 5"high It was acquired from the Mc Quade estate. A Release and Disclosure" Statement will be provided. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BUYING OR MAKING A OFFER PLEASE EMAIL ME TIM JONES AT tejones0433@msn.com
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1337594
A fine Pre-Columbian Chimú-Inka pottery vase 1240 - 1570 BC.

The vessel tall with animal shaped handles. In black-glazed pottery, glossy and attractive.

Size: 13,5 cm.

Condition: Choice, micro chip to the rim!.

Ex. Private Berlin Estate collection
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1346172 (stock #CW100)
Colima Archaic Warrior holding a club-Standing in a fluid motion-like filled position with arms raised at the ready at the ready holding a club. A spread feather –like attachment is strapped to the back with straps that chris cross the chest. Applied donut circular eyes typical of the archaic style. Applied strips form a helmet and chin strap. Buff clay with good deposits. The holes on the back suggests that it may have served as a whistle...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Stone : Pre 1492 item #1356481
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$145.00
Pre Columbian Sodalite Stone and Chrysocolla bead group lot, nice large bead pendant all conically drilled .Size of large bead is 3/4' by 3/4" or so.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pre 1492 item #1356548
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$225.00
Pre Columbian Peruvian Chavin lama Bone Crawfish shaped Spoon and steatite stone Bead with incised circular design. Spoon 2.25"
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1357815
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$20.00
Neolithic Peruvian Grey Stone Spear point, this came with a collection of Pre Columbian loose beads all from Peru so we assume this is also from there . It deserves a good home where someone knows what it is. 3" long 1.5" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1362504
A rare and very interesting Pre-Columbian pottery vessel, Peru and most likely Moche(?), mid 1st. millenium AD.

Interesting vessel made in pottery to look like na waterskin or skin for alcoholic beverages. In redish glazed pottery.

A rare piece that was part of the inventory of a Danish Antiques dealer, his price still in the bottom - ca. $800!.

Size: 21. cm. high.

Condition: Choice! Very attractive...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1362505
Carchi / Narino Culture. Ecuador, pottery jar with fine decorations of red on black glaze, ca. 850-1250 AD.

Size: 9 cm. high and 12 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice!

Ex. Provenance: Ib Olsen Collection, bought in the 1960s-1980s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1362945
From the shaft tombs of the Southern Highland Narino Region of Columbia.

This choice vessel has the body decorated with a red-on-cream resist painted pattern. Serrated edge.

Size: ca. 75 mm. high and ca. 155 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Choice! nothing to remark.

Ex. The Professor D.H. collection, Münic, ca. 1960s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1362948
Senatus Consulto
$475.00
Reduced, was $575
Very interesting and unidentified Pre-Columbian pottery vessel or large Jug with handle, pre 15th. century AD and likly pre 1000 AD.

A very artful and attractive vessel with a small round spout and a bulbous body with 6 larger knobs in different colours, red, cream and black.

Perhaps from Peru or perhaps Columbia, we're not certain.

Size: 15,5 cm. in diameter and ca. 14,5 cm. high.

Ex. Ib Olsen Collection
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1362950
A very rare Jama-Coaque pottery bowl, ca. 500 B.C.-500 AD.

The ONLY pottery bowl we've ever seen with 5 legs, all decorated with faces of people or animals.

Interesting and very attractive bowl for any collection of fine Pre-Columbian antiquities.

Condition: Choice, very fine thin hairline othervise perfect for type.

From the collection of a doctor (B.S.) from Bayern in Southern Germany, 1970s-1980s.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1366374
A rare pottery Jug with handle in red terracotta with the spout moulded as a human face and with eyes and brows drawn in black and cream. The arms on the belly drawn as well, all on a red glazed ground. Costa Rica, pre 15th. century

Size: ca. 12 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice, hairline repair to handle, othervise in perfect condition with preserved glaze. A very attractive vessel!

Ex. Professor Dr. Günther Marschall, Hamburg (1913 - 1997)
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1366760
A fine Vicus Figural Vessel, c. 100 BC - 300 AD.

The double vessel with bridge handle, a monkey on one side and spout on the other, the designs in black negative resist paint.

Vicus culture was an important early culture in Peru about 2,000 years ago, with an archeological site in northern Peru discovered in 1961...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Metalwork : Pre 1492 item #1375703
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$6,500.00
Rare and extremely fine pair of Incan sheet silver and gold ceremonial deer cups . The hooves ears tails and antlers on the male are in nearly 17k gold . The female is made of 20 different pieces of sheet silver and gold soldered together and the male even more pieces. This set is believed to have been made by Chimu artisans for the new Inca rulers, from what experts have said this is the only known pair of this quality in silver...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1375753 (stock #AB-011)
JJ Oriental
$2,800.00
An unusual and rare Pre-Columbian necklace of ancient ivory-colored petrified Scorpian eggs and ceramic disc beads that were discovered together (it was restrung in Columbia)...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1375795 (stock #AB-003)
JJ Oriental
$1,800.00
Rare Pre Columbian necklace of agate, carnelian and quartz beads. The central pendant features a large-eyed, large-beaked terracotta bird that functions as a whistle that works and is loud an clear.There are 20 cylinder beads of agate and jasper and 2 cone-shaped crystal beads. Period: Pre-Columbian (500 BC) Condition: Small chip on the head of the whistle.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1376695
Senatus Consulto
$495.00
Reduced, was 595.00
Rare Ceramic stirrup spout vessel with seated Scorpio. Moche Culture, Peru, 100 BC to 700 AD.

A superb vessel in very good intact condition. A Scorpio is seated on top of the vessel and from it's back, the stirrup handle evolves.

Size: 20 cm.

Condition: Superb.

Ex Estate sale of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 2003 and since then in a Hessen Collection.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1386243
A rare Peruvian Stirrup Vessel, Chimú culture, ca. 1000-1300 AD.

The globular vessel with stirrup handle, the body decorated with two elongated, snake-like fish, fine little bird is seated at the handle.

Size: ca. 21,5 cm. high.

_Choice, looks completely intact

Ex. W. S., München, before 1974.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1398904
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$950.00
Reduced, was 1150.00
Rare Pre-Columbian Volcanic stone figure of a seated lady, cupping her breasts, Atlantic Watershed Region, Chiriqui-Diquis, ca. 300-800 AD.

Seated naked woman, cupping each breast in her hands, with serene facial features, large ears to the side, the striated coiffure extending down the neck. Porous basalt, intact. The breast holding posture of this female figure is seen as a symbolic fertility gesture.

Size: 24,7 cm...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1399482 (stock #P95)
Antique Pre-Columbian Chimú Blackware Pottery Vessel ca. 1100 - 1532 AD. The middle part of the vessel is divided into four quadrants and decorated in relief featuring Naylamp/Naylap, a mythical god, standing with raised arms, as well as a scorpion with a human head, and a figure of an animal. Of these three figures, they wear large crescentic headdresses, the forth panel depicts two human figures holding large crescentic headdress...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre AD 1000 item #1399483 (stock #P96)
A superb quality ancient Pre-Columbian, Chorrera, ca. 9th–5th century B.C. Effigy vessel. A flat -bottomed compound vessel with a raised neck, slightly flared rim and three Anthropomorphic / Zoomorphic heads protruding from the shoulders, equidistantly positioned to provide a sense of balance to the overall composition of the vessel.

Details of the visages are nicely incised and delineated in repousse. Boasts a lovely redware finish and nice burnishing marks...

All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pre 1700 item #1402291 (stock #LS20194)
Ancient Artifacts
$15,000.00
This is an extraordinarily rare and unique carved bone Mayan plaque. This masterpiece is the finest I have ever seen and very few exist. It is 4 1/2" X 2 1/2" X 1/8". It is from the Aapo Bolon Estate which was collected by the family while living in Guatemala from 1920-1980. I inspected the entire collection of over 1000 pieces and found nothing incorrect in any item. This was the finest piece in the offering. It is from the Post Classic Period as it is made from Bovine bone. It shows nice age...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Metalwork : Pre 1492 item #1402646
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$6,895.00
Ancient Moche solid cast silver Tumi Sceptre c 300 AD with Warriors or high priest Lords. Fine sculpture and casting with inlaid stone eyes headdress ear flairs and shields. Xrf testing done for content appraised and authenticated by Lowell Collins with paperwork. The sceptre came from a 1960s Texas collection. Weight is 292g silver and is 9.5" long and 2 ' wide at the top.
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pre AD 1000 item #1404740 (stock #071919A)
This early South Coast textile incorporates a two-headed serpent motif, together with a human (or divine) being with arms raised high (sometimes referred to as "the oculate being," because of the prominent, bulging eyes.). Classic south coast imagery, most probably Nazca (Nasca). I included a photograph of a much later related image, dating to perhaps as much as one thousand years later, to show the continuity of the imagery. A comparison of this example to the later, published piece, will show ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1406345
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$495.00
Reduced, was 595.00
A highly interesting and very accomplished Blackware vessel with the portrait head of a living man, Precolumbian Peru, Late Moche or early Chimú, 7th.-9th. century AD.

Superbly detailed and rather substantial vessel, made as a grinning man with his tungue between his teeth and wearing larger earrings and headdress, the spout of the vessel prodruding from the top of his head. Rather scarce piece!

Size: 22 cm. tall and 16 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice and intact!
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Stone : Pre AD 1000 item #1406681
Zentner Collection
Price on Request
Rare, ancient Pre-Columbian stone amulets. Pre-Columbian art encompasses the artifacts created by the indigenous peoples from the second millennium BC to the time of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, when the existing cultures were conquered by the Europeans.

Date:Pre-Columbian (14000 BP - 1492 CE)

Dimensions: 6.5" wide X 5" tall including stand, largest piece is 3.75" tall X 1.25" wide
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Pottery : Pre 1492 item #1406748
Pre-Columbian globular pottery jar, Chancay Peru, 1000-1400 AD.

A beautiful and scarce larger pottery jar from the Chancay culture, globular shape with applied handles in both sides and tiny animals on both sides as well. The pottery greyish white with black line decoration.

Size: 19 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice!, some roughness to the edge of the spout, othervise intact.

Ex. A. Stensager Collection, formerly in a private German Collection, ex GM auc...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre 1492 item #1406759
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$525.00
Reduced, was 875.00
Two extremely rare and very attractive figurines from the Manteno culture: An oval shaped vessel with a human face and crossed legs of an animal in front. The face and the mouth of the vessel are framed by dashed lines and a stylized, sitting man with oversized head, 1000-1500 AD.

Wonderful archaic and very artful details. This set is extremely rare; we haven't similar style figures from Manteno in the trade for more than 20 years of dealing!

Vessel: Length ca. 15cm, height...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1411732
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$3,850.00
Reduced, was 4500.00
Important huge granite stone ritual pestle shaped as a bust or head with neck, Pre-columbian, the Dominican Republic, Taino Culture, ca. 1000-1500 A.D.

This sculpture, likely the head of Zemi(?), is authentic and comes with a beautiful ancient patina and provenance to a reknown old German collection, read below.

A very important and large stone sculpture, carved in the form of a skeletal face typical of the Taino culture with a finely decorated head band. The sculpture is ...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre 1492 item #1411734
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$3,250.00
Reduced, was 4150.00
An exceptional Pre-Columbian Stone Metate, the Dominican Republic, Pre-Taino Culture, 1st. millenium A.D.

Large and complete square Metates from Taino Culture are extremely rarely seen if ever on the antiques market. This Metate is authentic and comes with a beautiful ancient patina and provenance to a reknown old German collection, read below.

Carved, volcanic-stone ceremonial metates represent one of the most unusual and complex traditions of pre-Columbian artifacts; they a...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre 1492 item #1411789
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$2,250.00
Reduced, was 3750.00
An unusually artful large stone head of a man looking up to the heavens, Dominican republic, Taino culture, Early Taino, ca. 1000 to 1300 AD.

The sculptural head is unusual with very interesting features with the prolonged back of head, the strongly pronounced eye-sockets and high cheekbones. A piece of sculptural art worthy of any collection of Pre-Columbian art as well as other collections of beautiful sculptures.

Size: 14,5 cm. wide and ca. 12 cm. tall and 12 cm. deep...
All Items : Antiques : Regional Art : Americas : Pre Columbian : Sculpture : Pre AD 1000 item #1412569
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$1,950.00
Reduced, was 2950.00
An unusually artful large stone head of a man with barred teeth, Dominican republic, Taino culture, Early Taino, ca. 1000 to 1300 AD.

The sculptural head highly unusual with very interesting features incl. what looks very much like glasses or a mask over the eyes. Barred teeth and a very broad flat nose. A piece of sculptural art worthy of any collection of Pre-Columbian art as well as other collections of beautiful sculptures.

Size: 13 cm. tall and ca. 12 cm. wide, very co...