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.
Mexican Pre Columbian Tlatilco Terracotta female Bust in Buff clay. 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. This head-bust has the classic eyes a large detailed headdress and earrings great piece with detail . Size 3." by 1.5"
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
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...
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"
Mexican Pre Columbian Tlatilco Terracotta Head. 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. This Bust has the classic eyes a large detailed hair style neck piece and spool earrings . Size 2.5" by 1.25"
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.
A rare and very attractive Peruvian stirrup spout vessel in the shape of a monkey.
Moche period (100-600 AD)
Condition: the four legs have been restored, the nose is chipped.
This piece comes from an old Dutch private collection.
Height 17 cm Width 15 cm
Pre Columbian Period Moche Feline head vessel. North Coast Peru, 450 - 700 AD.
A love two colour pottery vessel in the form of a feline (animal - jaguar?) head and a trompet-shaped spout.
The cat fierce looking with barred teeth.
Size: 19,5 cm. x 14 cm.
Condition: Choice!, intact with a micro chip under the spout, mentioned only to be 100% correct. Fine old collection patina.
Ex. Old Danish Private Collection, aquired to Denmark before 1970.
Costa Rican facial vessel from the Central Highlands - Atlantic Watershed Zone, dating to ca. 400-700 AD.
A beautiful bowl in a fine condition for the type, red slip and with a high handle. Archaic style faces in relief on the corpus.
Size: ca. 10 cm. wide and 10 cm. high.
Condition: Choice! Really nice and intact bowl, short closed stress hairline in the bottom is no distraction, from this othervise perfect quality pice. No repairs or losses.
Ex...
A Pre-Columbian barrel-shaped vessel with Feline heads with large fangs, Peru, Moche Culture, 2nd.-5th. century AD.
Very vivid and beautiful ceramic vessel of zoomorphic design.
Size: 15 cm.
Condition: Intact w beautifully preserved colours.
Ex. Prominent Danish Private Collection, comes with COA and provenance back to a 1960s-70s. collection of Jan Pelle, Denmark.
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)...
Mexican Pre Columbian Tlatilco Terracotta Head. Rare fragment from an early culture c 1200bc-600bc. Tlatilco is noted in particular for its high quality pottery pieces, many featuring Olmec iconography and elaborate hair styles. This head of a large female with a heavy curled hair style, chip to lower lip . Size 2.5" h by 2.25" wide
A large and attractive globular jar of blackware, Chimú c. 1200-1400 AD.
The vessel comes with a TL test from Ralf Kotallas lab.
Ex. Old German collection from the 1980s.
Height: c. 21,5 cm.
Condition: Good Very fine, intact.
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 2.5" by 2.5" for ball like bird figure.
San Sebastián Style Nayarit Terracotta Sculpture of a Seated Man - Origin: Western Mexico,Circa: 300 BC to 300 AD,Dimensions H 6" by 4" repaired at neck . legs and neck repaired it re broke since listing so lower price was 685.00 now 199
HIGH QUALITY LARGE NARINO CAPULI PEDESTAL BOWL, Capuli cultural complex (ca. 850 A.D. – 1500 A.D.)
From the shaft tombs of the Southern Highland Narino Region of Columbia.
This spectacular bowl has the body decorated with a black and red-on-cream resist painted pattern.
Size: ca. 20 cm. in diameter and ca. 9-10 cm. high.
Condition: Choice! Flawless with fully painted and preserved surfaces and light wear in places.
Ex...
A very interesting and rare Narino pottery vessel, shaped as a discus, really looks like an alien spaceship! Capuli cultural complex (ca. 850 A.D. – 1500 A.D.)
We've haven't seen an exact match in style and this is an attractive piece!
Size: 193 mm. in diameter
Condition: Choice for type! Though this is a tough type of pottery to find in superb condition, this actually intact anbd unrepaired...