A very fine sitting 'Coquero' figure, from the Narino - Carchi culture that inhabited the highlands of southern Columbia and northern Ecuador. Circa 1000 AD - 1400 AD.
This piece measures approximately 7.5" tall, 4" wide, and 4.25" deep.
This ancient terracotta ceramic scupture depicts a male figure, seated on ...click for details
Beautiful antique Native American floral beaded necktie and collar, circa 1890 - 1915, and originating from one of the Northern Great Plains or Plateau tribes, possibly Nez Perce or Warm Springs.
This necktie is fashioned in the traditional European - White man's style of the day and features a design of red roses with green leaves, on a fully-beaded white background, bordered by a single row of medium blue bea ...click for details
Large and rare pre-Columbian silver effigy beaker or kero dating to the Chimu culture of Peru, 1100-1400 AD. Provenance: Sotheby's 'Pre-Columbian Art' sale, May 27, 1998. This vessel is in the form of a human head wearing a headdress (probably a Chieftain or important personage) and the features are hammered out in repousse, wit ...click for details
Old and beautiful Spanish Colonial retablo from Mexico, dating from the late 18th or very early 19th century. The painting was done with oil pigments, on hand-laid paper that was glued onto a thick hand-hewn pine wood panel. There is evidence that the paper was laid onto the panel when the retablo was painted as there are traces of blue paint on the sides of the panel.