Tang terra cotta image of a Court Official. Traces of original pigments. Miniatures are extremely rare. H: 7.9cm. Good condition- no damage or repair.
Seated figure, Nayarit, West Mexico, 100BC-250AD.
H. 16,5 cm. The head restored.
Ex Dutch auction house, ca. 2005.
Standing figure, Nayarit, West Mexico, 100BC-250AD
H. 19,5 cm. Good condition: chip to the right ear and a minor repair to the tip of the nose. Good manganese deposits.
Ex Dutch private collection, collected in the 1970’s.
Seated hunchback figure, Jalisco, Mexico, 100BC-250AD
H. 18 cm. Good condition with great manganese deposits and traces of plant roots.
Ex Dutch auction house, ca. 2005, since then in my private collection.
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...
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.
A lovely intact and large Messapian oinochoe with rotelles at the handle, 4th century BC.
The decor in dark brown depicting between broad lines on the shoulder and corpus a circle of leaves and two laurel-branches...
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.
Pair of pottery fragments including a head with torso from the La Tolita culture, c. 200 BC-300 AD. and a very interesting head, that wears a mask that looks like a divers mask or an astronauts mask. Closely fitted over the eyes and nose. Peculiar!
Size: 44 mm. and 35 mm. tall.
Ex. Old German private Collection.
A highly attractive terracotta stamp seal, carved in deep relief with a geomethric pattern, Pre-Columbian, Nicoya, Linea Vieja, 1st. mill. AD
Well-made in a wonderful condition. Almost stone-like density of this red ceramic.
Size: 57 mm. tall and 40 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Extremely Fine.
Ex. German Private Collection and ex a Dorotheum auctionsale in 1980, where it was purchased!
A highly attractive terracotta stamp seal, carved in deep relief with a monkey, Pre-Columbian, Nicoya, LHustar Culture, 800-1200 AD
Well-made in a wonderful condition and large. Almost stone-like density of this orange-red ceramic.
Size: 61 mm. tall and 48 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Extremely Fine.
Ex. German Private Collection and comes with a picture of a receipt from a Dorotheum auctionsale in 1980, where it was purchased!
A highly attractive terracotta stamp seal, carved in deep relief with a geomethric pattern, Pre-Columbian, Nicoya, Linea Vieja, 1st. mill. AD
Well-made in a wonderful condition and large. Almost stone-like density of this red ceramic.
Size: 57 mm. tall and 48 mm. in diameter.
Condition: Extremely Fine.
Ex. German Private Collection and comes with a picture of a receipt from a Dorotheum auctionsale in 1977, where it was purchased!
Oval vessel with bow handle between spout and perforated animal head, Vicús, ca. 100 - 500 AD.
Fine condition vessel from the rather illusive Vicus culture contemporary with the more well-known Moche culture. The vessel misses a very small pseudy lug handle at one side, othervise completely intact and unrepaired with some light weathering at edge of the spout.
Size: 18,5cm long.
Provenance: Heidi Vogelsandt, Darmstadt, prior to 1995.
A rare and interesting depiction of a wild dog on a double vessel with a large mug decorated with a relief carving of human figures and with whistle function.
Size: 19,5 cm. wide and 13,5cm. tall, substantial in hand.
Condtition: Good Very fine, intact with a short closed micro-thin hairline at the rim.
Provenance: Heidi Vogelsandt, Darmstadt, prior to 1995.
An attractive double chambered bridge vessel with bow handle and a human head, body with relief decorations, Pre-columbian Chimú, 1250-1450 AD.
Size: 21,5 cm. wide and 18,5cm. tall.
Condition: Nice Very fine, hairline closed crack in the body and some light chipping of edges, othervise complete and intact.
Attractive, intact large spouted jar with broad strap handle, c. 900-1300 AD.
Finely made, very sharply symethric piece with decoration along the upperpart. Very old collection tags still glued to the base.
Size: c. 23 cm. tall.
Condition: Choice.
Provenance: Ex Gorny & Mosch Auction 252, 2017, Lot 780; ex collection W. B., Baden-Württemberg, 1930-1962.
Exceptional detail and design on this very large 13 1/4" wide x 4 3/4" tall pre-Columbian Mayan tri-leg bowl with rattle legs depicting birdman dancing. Several large pieces reattached. Beautiful original paint on interior and exterior. Awe-inspiring display as is or have Stoetzerinc restore.
25 precolumbian spindle whorls of clay, large sizes, in variety of color, shapes, with embossed and incised decoration, from regions in Mexico to South America.
Measure 1 1/2" diameter in larger beads, some are deep, one is round.
Clay spindle whorls are found throughout the world, and those of the precolumbian regions have similar styles, shapes and decoration, utilizing varying colors of clay...