Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art: Americas: Pre Columbian: Pottery (60)

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 couple of rare vessels in red / black, Quimbaya, Ecuador or Columbia, 7th.-14th. cent. AD

Lot consists of a lovely pedestal rattle vessel with small perferations on the foot and applications of animals on the rim and a jug with a human face impressed on the neck, Anthropomorphic style and decorated with black on red lines.

Size: The pedestal, 15,5 cm. wide and 9,3 cm. tall; the jug 15 cm. tall...

Impressive pottery stamp seal carved with 4 birds (Flamingos?) over a geomethric panel, Pre-Columbian, Chancay, 12th.-15th. century AD.

The stamp is completely intact and massive! There's a projecting spike on the back.

Size: 10 cm. wide and 5,1 cm. tall.c. 5 cm. deep.

Ex Old Danish Private Collection collection, aquired in 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 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.

A very attractice pottery bowl with the typical corset / convex shape, Ica / Chincha bowl, pre-columbian, 1000-1476 AD.

Probably made locally under Inca overlordship. The ornamentation of this Ica-Chincha vessel is geometric, and it brings to mind a woven textile pattern and surface.

Size: 12,8 cm. in diameter and 4,8 cm. tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, intact with a few minor glaze chips to the rim.

A rare and very interesting Pre-Columbian pottery vessel, Peru and most likely Moche(?), mid 1st. millenium AD.

Interesting vessel made in pottery to look like na waterskin or skin for alcoholic beverages. In redish glazed pottery.

A rare piece that was part of the inventory of a Danish Antiques dealer, his price still in the bottom - ca. $800!.

Size: 21. cm. high.

Condition: Choice! Very attractive...

A beautiful large pottery food bowl, Pre-Columbian Moche culture, TL tested to be c. 2000 years old.

In orange ware with decorative red line at the rim.

Size c. 20 cm. in diameter.

Condition: Nice Very fine and intact. With some glue below the base from a previous mounting.

Comes with a Ralf Kotalla TL test from 1991!

Ex. Old German private Collection, aquired in the 1980s.

Blackware vessel with spout in form of a dignitary's head and relief of feline predators, Moche, ca. 200-500 AD.

An extremely attractive and interesting vessel, Moche blackware with carved cats or panthers and decoration.

Size: 20 cm.

Condition: Choice, minor chip at spout, othervise intact.

Ex Estate sale of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 2003 and since then in a Hessen Collection.

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 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.

A very rarely offered complete polychrome pottery figural vessel, Aztec / triple alliance Empire, c. 1200-1500 AD.

Interesting vessel that is both anthropomorphic and zoomorphic. A bulbous vessel with the figure having small limbs and with a small head with facial tattoos, probably a chieftain or Shaman. He is sort of holding on to the jar backwards with his diminutive hands. On the side of the vessel a protruding Feline or Dog head.

Size: 15 cm. wide and 9 cm...

Rare Ceramic stirrup spout vessel with seated Scorpio. Moche Culture, Peru, 100 BC to 700 AD.

A superb vessel in very good intact condition. A Scorpio is seated on top of the vessel and from it's back, the stirrup handle evolves.

Size: 20 cm.

Condition: Superb.

Ex Estate sale of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany 2003 and since then in a Hessen Collection.

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.

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.

Pre-Columbian, Chimú culture, c. 1000-1400 AD.

Finely preserved - the lines on the face are just lines from the making in the mold. A moldmade blackware pottery flask, molded as the face of a 'Sungod' with human features, above a sun symbol and on the backside another sun-symbol or a depiction of the sun with rays. Tall spout protruding from his head. Decorated with starshaped dotted pattern.

Size: 16,2 cm. tall...

A fine and coletely intact small pottery vase, Pre-Columbian Inca Empire, Chancay culture.

Globular form with handle, tags from a very old 19th. century European collection on the belly!

Size: 10,4 cm.

Condition: Choice with nice patina.

Ex. Old Danish Collection

A lot of three very nice pottery vessels, pre 14th. cent. AD.

An intact pilgrim bottle type in glossy brownish ware, Moche Culture, c. 200-500 AD. Height 16cm.

A very rare and interesting zoomorphic vessel shaped as a seal, Columbia/Ecuador, 1st. mill. AD. Intact - hairline repair. Lenght 16 cm.

A nice anthropomorphic blackware vessel with many embossed warriors, Chimú, spout chipped, probably around 1100-1200 AD...