Rare COLIMA PRE-COLUMBIAN DOG HEAD POTTERY JAR

Pre-Columbian Pottery Assortment (15) items including an Incan polychrome handled vessel having a jaguar head; a Colima jar having protruding head and tail of a dog; a Mexican bowl supported by addors

LOT (3) MESO-AMERICAN PRE-COLUMBIAN POTTERY INCLUDING COLIMA DOG HEAD VESSEL, HEIGHT 5"; COLIMA STIRRUP VESSEL, HEIGHT 7", PEDESTAL BOWL, HEIGHT 3 1/2"; DIAMETER 6 1/2"

**Originally Listed At $200** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A charming low, round pottery jar with twin handles that terminate in the form of dogs' heads leaning against

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A delightful sculptural vessel in traditional dog form but with 2 heads and 2 tails, their faces caught in a playful expression as they share

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A charming, hand-sculpted terracotta figure of a dog. With a hugely fat body and a sleek head with big eyes, the dog has almost comical propo

Pre-Columbian Colima Pottery Dog Vessel. Seated dog figure with flared spout to the head. {Approximate dimensions: 11 1/2 high x 6 wide x 14 inches deep.}. Provenance: The Golden-Kidder Trust Conditio

Pre-Columbian. Western Mexico, Colima region, ca. 300 BCE/CE. Fine pottery jar in the form of a shaman's head. Wearing a crested helmet with "flattened" horn and three horizontal ridges - 2 to the sid

Pre-Columbian Colima Pottery Dog Vessel. Seated dog; flared spout emerging from the dog's head. {Approximate dimensions: 9 1/2 high x 4 1/2 wide x 8 inches deep.}. Provenance: The Golden-Kidder Trust

Pre-Columbian Colima Pottery Dog Vessel. Dog on all fours; flared spout to the head. {Approximate dimensions: 7 3/4 high x 5 wide x 9 inches deep.}. Provenance: The Golden-Kidder Trust Condition: Surf

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE. Redware effigy pottery jar in the form of a seated drinking figure with an opening behind his head. He clearly suffers some form of physical

Pre-Columbian Colima Redware Seated Dog from West Mexico, ca. 200 B.C-200 A.D. Redware pottery seated dog vessel having a funnel type spout on top of his head. Depicted with a short uncurled, pointed

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A most unusual Colima redware vessel presenting a gadrooned squash-shaped body supported by three dog heads, each one with a pointed snout, perky ear

**Originally Listed At $300** Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Jalisco, Protoclassic Period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. An interesting example from ancient West Mexico, a seated figure with sinuous arms wrappe

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 200 BCE/CE. Rare pottery vessel in "envelope" form. Thin pouring jar with slightly flared rim with red slipped exterior decorated on each side with square incis

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima region, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A very fine pottery vessel! Redware jar with small spout at top of head, in the form of a seated shaman. He wears the classic shaman's

Pre-Columbian, Panama, Gran Cocle, ca. 500 to 600 CE. A polychrome pottery jar with a delightful frog form with three dimensional head and twin points on the back. Painted limbs and body of the frog s

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Jalisco, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. This is a really unique piece; a pottery dog in the form of a jar. He has a spiny ridge running down his back and humanized arms. The surfac

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built redware pottery sculpture of an incredibly rare form composed of two emaciated canines that are conjoined a

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Although the neighboring Colima are known for their dog vessels, they are much rarer to find from the Nayarit! A fantastically expressive an

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built and highly-burnished pottery vessel of a large form with a rounded base, a wide, tapering body with two projecting elements, and

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, 300 BCE to 300 CE. A cute little dog with a rotund body, sitting back on his short legs, with a short, curled tail and a spout rising from his head. Scholars know o

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A bewitching and sizeable hand-built pottery dog vessel with a brief spout atop its head. The highly burnished red-slip

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Protoclassic period, ca. 100 BCE to 250 CE. A hand-built redware pottery sculpture of an incredibly rare form composed of two emaciated canines that are conjoined a

This is a Pre-Columbian lot of two redware pottery pieces including a Colima dog figurine 250BC-200AD and a Guanacaste, Nicoya, Costa Rica 300BC-300AD pipe with an animal head. Both purchased Oct 1986