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A really nice and quite scarce vessel shaped as a human figure with two smaller figures on either side, Late Chimü or early Incan, c. 13th.-14th. cent. AD.

Size: c. 17,5 cm. x 13 cm.

Condition: Good very fine and intact.

Ex. Old Danish Collection from the 1960s-70s.

An attractive red terracotta stamp seal, carved in deep relief with a cruciform pattern, Pre-Columbian, Nicoya, Linea Vieja, 1st. mill. AD

Well-made in a wonderful condition. Almost stone-like density of this red ceramic.

Size: 43 mm. tall and c. 47-48 mm. in diameter.

Condition: Extremely Fine.

Ex. German Private Collection and ex a Dorotheum auctionsale in 1980, where it was purchased!

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. Height 16 cm.

Affordable lot with a...

A wonderful small group of three ceramics, incl. a very large vessel shaped as a duck.

The duck vessel is around 24 cm. tall and massive, Tlatilco, Mexico, very early and rare, dating before 200 BC! One leg reattached and some minor chips. This comes with copy of the invoice from 1968!
Large expressive Jalizco pottery head mounted, 9 cm. wide.
A chorrera zoomorphic pot, 19 cm., from two large fragments.

Old Austrian Collection from the 1950s and onwards. ...

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. The couple lived years in South America, in Ecuador in 1958, Columbia from 1964-1966 and later in 1976 in Peru and Bolivia, and in all of those pla...

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.

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 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.

Interesting and decorative fragment of a figural tile, Mexico, Aztecs, 1300 to 1521 AD.

The tile showing two warriors or deities fighting, one holding a dagger and both with elaborate headdresses.

Size: 26 x 19 cm. Thick.

Condition: Fragmentary, with most of the motif preserved, some corrosion to the front and more so on the back. Remnants of mortar or plaster.

Provenance: Collection of Gunna Munkvad, Denmark, aquired from the 1950s-1980s.

A larger and very refined La Tolita head. He wears a giant nosering and a cap, in hard burnt stoneware.

Size: 5 cm. tall and 5 cm. wide. Unmounted.

Condition: Choice.

Ex Old German Private Collection.

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!

A wonderful sturdy cloakpin of silver with the substantial finial in gold, Chimú-Inca period, ca. 12th.-15th. century AD.

Size 14,1 cm. and weighing 10 grams.

German Private Collection, aquired between 1975-1985.

An ancient amuletic bead, carved in bone of a monkey, Pre-Columbian Andean region, c. 600-1200 AD.

Attractive and still wearable with loop at the back.

Condition: Extremely fine.

Ex. Old German Private Collection, 1960-70s.

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.

Fine small collection of three pairs of gold tweezers for the removal of bodily hair, Chimü or earlier, c. 600-1100 AD.

All Tweezers test as 18 carats or more and stringed as pendants to brown thread.

Size: 3 cm. for the two largest in length, 2,4 cm. for the smaller.

Weight: c. 7 grams or more, ex strings. The largest weigh c. 3,2 grams, the 2nd. 2,8 grams and the last 1,3 grams of gold.

Condition: Choice and intact.

Provenance: Ex Colle...

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 beautiful Pre-Columbian Stone Metate, complete with Mano, Costa Rica, 1st. millenium A.D.

A rarely seen complete square Metate with a turtle head and grinding stone, socalled manu, standing on three legs. This Metate is authentic and comes with a beautiful ancient patina and provenance from old Danish collection.

Carved, volcanic-stone ceremonial metates represent one of the most unusual and complex traditions of pre-Columbian artifacts and typical for Costa Rica / Domini...

A very attractive Jalisco pottery figure of a naked woman with large headdress, Mexico, Pre-columbian period, 200 BC- 400 AD.

Stunning quality with preserved moulded details and pigments.

Size: c. 17,5 cm. tall and 20 cm. incl. the fine dark wood costum made base.

Condition: Excellent and choice for the type, intact with small old loss to edge of headress at her left side.

Ex. Old Danish Collection, aquired in the 1960s-1970s.

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. tall.

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 massive and elaborate seal of the rare roller seal group, probably for decorating bread, Pre-Columbian Carchi culture, Ecuador. 500 BC-500 AD.

A very beautiful and impressive seal decorated with geomethric patterns in solid grey stoneware. The seal born with protruding handles, to make it easier to use.

Size: 12 cm. long!

Condition: Extremely fine.

Ex. Lyngbye Collection, Jan Pelle, aquired in the 1960s, with his old tag made later.

A lovely large and heavy pair ot tweezers for the removal of bodily hair, Chimü or earlier, c. 600-1100 AD.

Very vivid piece done in reppousee to resample the bust of a human.

Size: 38 x 32 mm. and weighing 8.44 grams in quite good gold alloy, probably around 18 carats.

Condition: Good Very fine, a few minor dents but completely intact and still workable.

Interesting huge seal from the Oberländer collection. It was described as unidentified and probably ceramic, but to us it looks like Limestone, but we're not certain. Ancient Pre-colombian or Western Asian? There were no other precolumbian items in the collection.

It's sold as guaranteed ancient and 800+ years old.

Size: 38 mm tall and 27 mm. thick!

Condition: Very fine, with overall wear and few chips.

Provenance: Gustav Oberländer (1926-2012), Ob...

Interesting huge seal from the Oberländer collection. It was described as unidentified and probably ceramic, but to us it looks like Limestone, but we're not certain. At first glance it looks like a Pre-Columbian seal, but details doesn't compute and there were no Pre-Columbian seals in the collection, so it could be from Mesopotamia / Western Asia, we're not certain.

It's sold as guaranteed ancient and 800+ years old.

Size: 35 mm tall and 36 mm. thick!

Conditi...

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

Squat form with twin handles and decorated in black glaze.

Size: 10 cm.

Condition: Choice with nice patina.

Ex. Old Danish Collection

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

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.

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.

Condition: Choice - Good Very fine, some mild wea...

A fantastic and very rare massive ritual spearpoint in black obsidian, Pre-Columbian or early colonial Mexico, likely Aztec manifacture, 14th.-16th. century.

The spearpoint made of one full flaking block of obsidian, with central unknapped areas to use its full size.

Size: 48 cm. long and weighing c. 2,2 kilograms!

Ex the collection of André Hüsken, Hamburg, Germany, c. 1990s.

A fantastic special collection of 11 stone animals, Andean cultures, c. 15th. cent.-18th. cent. AD.

Carved soapstone votive animal figures incl. cow, bull, ram, lama and wonderful small herds of farm animals!.

Sizeable figures, between 4,2 - 7,8 cm. long.

Condition: Choice, mostly intact figures, with few small losses. Lovely patinas!

Old Private Collection, 1950-190s.