An unusually large and well-made amulet of a bird, carved from hard black stone, Pre-Columbian Moche Culture, Early fase 100-300 AD.
In an exceptional quality, also for the material. Finely carved, symethric and with very sharp details. Elongated base pierced for suspension. Part of a small selection of high quality amulets from the Lyngbye Collection.
Size: c. 34 mm. wide and 30 mm. tall. Weight: 13,78 grams...
A large and attractive globular jar with twin handles and decorations on the upper part of the blackware vessel, Chimú c. 900-1400 AD.
Size: 18-19 cm. tall and 18-19 cm. wide.
Condition: Good Very fine, intact with two very small holes repaired.
Ex. Old German collection from the 1980s.
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
Pre Columbian Veracruz Terracotta Fragment with a Celt and oil lamp . Group lot the terracotta has beautiful mold work depicting an arm and braided hair likely from a censor the celt from an unknown source and the terracotta Holy land style piece . The largent 4.5" by 3.75"
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
Colima Flat Large Female 9 1/2" by 5 1/2" CA. 300 B.C. to 500 A.D. Right leg reattached with break line showing, otherwise intact. This is a very nice early example, showing double pin hole piercing for each eye. She wears a unique head turban that flows continuously from the head wrap to drape over both shoulders. The piece is well shaped and detailed ,with an exceptional lifted and formed butt that is atypical for flats.
A fine selection of beautiful early heads, pre-columbian from c. 300 BC-600 AD.
Mainly Mexico, Maya, but could be others as well. Incl. a lovely head of a wrinkled old man with big ears.
Size: Up to c. 56 mm.
Ex. Austrian Private Collecyion, c. 1960-1990.
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...
Colima vase/olla 300 bc. to 300 ad. No Restoration, it is approx: 5"wide X 5"high
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Nice ceramic vessel in a classic vase shape with fine Narino or Quimbaya culture, Northern Ecuador and Southern Colombia, 8th.-15th. cent. AD.
Rough, glazed ceramic in red colour, w remnants of black resist painting.
Size: 18 cm. tall
Condition: Choice, completely intact.
Provenance: Inger and Ebbe Gotzche Frederiksen, Espergærde, Denmark...
A couple of very rare Pre-Columbian containers, made of a long hollowed bone, clad in leather and decorated with shells, Chancay or earlier, pre 15th. century AD
Containers for holding pins, likely darts for a blow gun!
Size: 17 cm. for the longest and 11,5 cm for the smaller.
Condition: Choice, some loss to leather and shell decorations, but remarkable intact for type and age. With remnants of a cord on one of them...
A fine large ceramic vessel - a globular jar with negative resist pattern in black on red, Ecuador or Columbia, pre 1000 AD.
Size: 23 cm. wide and 14 cm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, intact with a tiny pin-hole in the side, preserved decoration.
Provenance: Inger and Ebbe Gotzche Frederiksen, Espergærde, Denmark...
Scarce pottery vase, Pre-Columbian Culture of Guanacaste, 1000 - 1500 A.D.
A fine little vase with incredible vivid colours, trompetshaped with footring. Tagged with black ink 'Cazhaldma' in the bottom, possible a finding place.
Size: 10 cm.
Condition: Choice, few minor nicks to the rim.
Ex Westermann collection, from the 1960s
A nice example of an early small Mayan cylinder with several small stress cracks from the pre-Classic [1500 BC-300 AD] period. 3.5" wide and 2.75" deep.
A very early pre-Classic [1200 Bc-300 AD] Tlatilco female figure. Although the right arm and most of the headdress are missing, it is still a fine example of a very early pre-Columbian art work. 4" tall.
Attractive Pre-Columbian pottery vessel with heads, Quimbaya/Carchi, Columbia, 7th.-14th. cent. AD
Interesting pedestal vessel with Zoomorphic heads and remnants of negative resist paint in black on red.
Size: 13 cm. wide, 9 cm. tall.
Condition: Choice and intact.
Provenance: Inger and Ebbe Gotzche Frederiksen, Espergærde, Denmark...
Mexican Pre Columbian Tlatilco Terracotta female Head with elaborate hair style and traces of black pigment. Rare fragment 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. Size 2" by 1.75"
Pre Columbian Lot 2 pieces One Volcanic Pestle and a Roller stamp or leg?
The leg possibly from Tlatilco and the pestle is unknown . Size pestle 2" on base and the stamp or leg is terracotta and is 2.25" tall by 1.25 W