A Nice, Thin-walled Inca Pottery Vessel - Gourd!

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery Pre 1492: item #733792
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This is a lovely, thin-walled pottery vessel depicting a sliced gourd. The piece dates to the Inca culture of ancient Peru, circa 1400 AD.

Measures 14 cm tall.

Condition: one sherd repaired at the rim. No overpainting or restoration whatsoever.

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Finest Ancient Nazca Burnished, Blackware Bowl

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #732769
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This fantastic Peruvian Nazca bowl dates to between 100 and 300 AD. The bowl is rendered in higly burnished blackware, articulated with vertical incisions around the exterior of the bowl. Very intriguing design, reminiscent of works by slightly earlier Etruscan potters in the Bucchero workshops.

The bowl is pristine, with no chips, cracks or repairs whatsoever. ... Click for details

Very Fine and Rare Nazca Pottery Bowl - Hands!

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #732763
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This is a fabulous piece. The standard Nazca pottery bowl form rendered in orange terracotta and decorated with four, circumnavigating hands and a central disc on the base in alternating shades of brown on a cream field. Lovely piece. Repaired, as seen.

This piece measures 7.17"(182 mm) in diameter. Dates to between 100 and 300 AD.

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Moche III Bean Bottle

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #730655
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An important Moche III stirrup bottle from Peru, ca. 200 – 450 AD. This fantastic example is 7-1/4" high and is covered with spotted beans that represent a written language utilizing pictographs to communicate messages. The spots and disposition of these beans were used to narrate historical events.

See Hoyle “Los Mochicas I”, page 163-166, for a similar vessel and extensive details.

Nazca Single Spout Bottle

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #730573
NZ373

A Late Nazca single spout bottle from Peru, ca. 650 – 700 AD. This fine polychrome vessel is 6” high and is decorated with Huari influenced versions combining elements of Surrounded Heads and Rayed Eye motifs, with a stylized serpent band encircling the center of the chamber. Strong paint, nice deposits, small repair.

See Proulx “A Sourcebook of Nazca Iconography” for extensive discussions on all of these iconograp... Click for details

Recuay Footed Bowl

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #730256
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A wonderfully delicate Recuay footed bowl from Peru, ca. 200 BC – 550 AD. This superb kaolin example is 5-1/4” in diameter and is decorated with traditional resist designs, topped by an unusual rim band representing claws or fangs. Good mineral deposits create a lovely visual texture.

See Donnan “Ceramics of Ancient Peru”, page 76, for the type.

Inca Offering Dish

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery Pre 1492: item #730250
IN129

A rare Inca offering dish from Peru, ca. 1450 – 1550 AD. The shallow plate is 5-3/4” in diameter, with a broad loop handle extending 2” beyond the rim. The piece is painted with a reddish-cream slip and decorated with repetitive linear designs. In excellent condition, with good mineral deposits.

See Donnan “Ceramics of Ancient Peru”, page 111, for the type.

Chavin Bottle

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery Pre 1492: item #729862
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Chavin Bottle, Ca. 1000-400 B.C. Small, redware terracotta bottle having a rounded body with tall, slender neck of slightly corseted form. Possibly representing an anthropomorphized rodent or guinea pig with relief facial detail on the body consisting of lightly recessed eyes and mouth, relief nose and “c” shaped ears flanking. Intact, save for a tiny probe hole on reverse. Provenance: Ex. Jean-Eugene Lions collection, Geneva, Switzerland.

Large Nicoya Urn - Lizards in Relief

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #728314
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Magnificent and large... Ancient Pottery Urn from the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica, dating between 500-1200 A.D. Impressive polychrome example with two opposing lizards in relief. Decorated in wonderful shades of red, brown and cream with geometric decorations on both the base/top. 13-1/4"H x 9-1/2"W, as is typical with examples of this size, the urn has been professionally restored from several fragments with some repainting. Still a very nice example for the money...... Click for details

Nazca Canteen

Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery Pre AD 1000: item #727916
NZ371

A superb Nazca canteen from Peru, ca. 400 – 600 AD. This lentoid shape vessel with small loop handles is 6” high and is decorated with two highly detailed trophy heads. Both are depicted with long, flowing hair, sharp teeth and odd ornamentations. Rare type, great paint.