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Place of Origin: South American
Pre-Columbian Nazca Polychrome Bowl South American art
Located in London, GB
Pre-Columbian Nazca Polychrome Bowl South Coast Peru, Nazca Culture, c. 200–600 AD A fine hand-coiled pottery bowl decorated in classic Nazca polychrome pigments—cream, black, red,...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

Spanish Colonial South American Painting Virgin folk art 18th C
Located in London, GB
A Spanish colonial South American folk art style painting of the Virgin and child South American Peru or Bolivia school 18th century or earlier Oil on canvas, framed size 40 x ...
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Mid-18th Century Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Paint

Gemstone sphere incense holder- serpentine green
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
A piece with soul: green serpentine incense holder, artisanally carved. Create a sacred space with this green serpentine incense holder, hand-carved with stone carpentry techniques ...
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21st Century and Contemporary South American Folk Art

Materials

Stone

Pre Columbian Ancient Pedestal bowl Charci / Nariño Latin American Antiques
Located in London, GB
PRE COLUMBIAN ANCIENT SOUTH AMERICAN FINE NARINO CARCHI PEDESTAL BOWL CIRCA 1100-1400 COLOMBIA  ECUADOR A HAND MODELED POTTERY BOWL FROM THE CARCHI / NARINO  BORDER REGIONS OF  ECUAD...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Silver-Mounted gaucho spurs – South American Colonial Arts decorative antiques
Located in London, GB
A Fine Old Pair of Gaucho Spurs, Argentina A well-made traditional pair of Argentine Gaucho spurs, crafted in brass with silver plating and highlighted with decorative silver inlays....
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19th Century Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Silver, Brass

Pre Columbian Large Chancay Cuchimilco Urn South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Large Chancay Anthropomorphic Urn Vessel Pre-Columbian, Central Coast of Peru 1000–1450 CE An imposing and characterful Chancay culture ceramic urn, fashioned in the form of a sty...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Pre-Columbian Tairona Tumbaga Pendant
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Pre-Columbian Tairona Tumbaga Pendant Rare original Columbian gold copper alloy Tairona Tumbaga effigy. This beautiful piece of jewelry from the 10th to 12th century Tairona culture...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Metal

Pre Columbian Calima vessel Columbia ancient South America
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian  Calima vessel Columbia ancient South America  A Calima vessel featuring double spouted stirrup vessel with incised design in red clay   Calima circa 200 BC- 400 AD Col...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Clay

Antique Spanish Colonial Folk Art Santos Figure folk art sculpture
Located in London, GB
Antique Spanish Colonial Poly chrome Folk Art Santos figure probably Philippines The finely sculptured large hard wood figure standing on a pedestal base, painted in polychrome col...
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18th Century Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Gesso, Wood

Vintage Andean Peruvian Fine Large Manta Cloth South American Textiles Decor
Located in London, GB
Vintage Andean Peruvian Manta Cloth South American Vintage Textiles. A very fine Vintage Manta cloth from the High Andes region of Peru Woven in came-lid fibre (Llama wool )beautiful...
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1960s Vintage South American Folk Art

Materials

Wool, Cotton

Pre Columbian Inca Early Colonial period Wood Kero South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian  INCA / Early Colonial period  Wood Kero    A superb Inca Kero carved and painted in a mosaic style with Avian floral and animal designs Height...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Pre Columbian Inca double chambered whistle vessel South Latin American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Inca double chambered whistle Vessel Circa 15- 16th Century Ad A fine Inca greyware vessel double chambered with a bird whistle on ...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Pre-Columbian Chimu Avian vessel ancient south America Circa 10 -15th century AD
Located in London, GB
A Pre Columbian Chimu grey ware bottle type vessel of a armadillo emerging from a pumpkin or gourd with a small baby armadillo on the upper side under the spout and a plaited stirrup...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Peru Pre-Inca 900 / 1470 AD Chimu Pre Columbian Vessel In Earthenware Pottery
Located in Miami, FL
A pre-Inca Chimu culture, pre Columbian vase in earth ware. This beautiful little vessel vase, was created in the northern Peruvian region by the Chimu culture between the 900 / 1...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Earthenware, Pottery

Americas Earliest Known Pyrography Vessel 400AD
Located in South Burlington, VT
World's earliest known pyrography vessel, Nazca Culture , circa 400 AD This unique work of art is a hand-incised half gourd using an early pyrographic (pyrography) wood burned techn...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Spanish Colonial Carved Polychrome Wood Panel 18th Century
Located in Bradenton, FL
18th Century Spanish Colonial Religious Wood Panel, Polychromed. Panel features a kneeling saint (or possibly Christ) in prayer as an angel appears from the heavens bearing a chalice...
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18th Century Spanish Colonial Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

1960s Antique Large Penca De Balangandan Afro-American Amulet Tinplate, Brazil
Located in Andernach, DE
Absolutely unique very large creole 'Penca De Balangandan' from Brazil from around 1960. Tin base, possibly silver plated. Traditional slave amule...
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Mid-20th Century American Colonial South American Folk Art

Materials

Tin

Pre Columbian Rare Lambayeque Wood Figure
Located in London, GB
Pre columbian Lamabayeque wood figure Peru Circa 750 to 1375 AD A rare standing figure of a deity with triangular tear drop shaped eyes holding a child, Carved in very dense heavy hard wood Measures: Height 14 inches, 36 cm weight, 1.5 kg approx Ex collection of a Oxford Academic, reputed to have came from Pit rivers...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Gemstone sphere incense holder Black Onyx
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
A piece with soul: green serpentine incense holder, artisanally carved. Create a sacred space with this green serpentine incense holder, hand-carved with stone carpentry techniques ...
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21st Century and Contemporary South American Folk Art

Materials

Stone

Gemstone sphere incense holder - Onyx Crema
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
Free yourself from plastic: this cream onyx incense holder reconnects with the essential. Create a sacred space with this creamy onyx incense holder, hand-carved with stone carpentr...
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21st Century and Contemporary South American Folk Art

Materials

Stone

Brazilian Folk Shrine, Late 19th to Early 20th Century – Ceará Region
Located in Rio De Janeiro, BR
Brazilian Folk Shrine, Late 19th to Early 20th Century – Ceará Region This extraordinary devotional shrine, measuring 119 cm in height by 86 cm in width, is a rare and evocative exam...
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1890s Folk Art Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Burr 3D gemstone puzzle in Black Onyx
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
Feel texture, weight, and form with this onyx puzzle: design you can experience. The burr puzzle is of mysterious origin, first seen engraved on the cover of Chambers's Cyclopaedia....
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21st Century and Contemporary South American Folk Art

Materials

Stone

Pre Columbian Large Inca Early Colonial period Wood Kero South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Large Pre Columbian  INCA / Early Colonial period  Wood Kero    A superb Large Inca Kero cup profusely carved in the mosaic style with a image of the Inca or...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Rare Brazilian Colonial 18th Century Shrine
Located in Rio De Janeiro, BR
18th-Century Brazilian Devotional Shrine from Minas Gerais A rare and historically significant 18th-century Brazilian devotional shrine from Minas Gerais, an exceptional piece of col...
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Mid-18th Century Other Antique South American Folk Art

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Wood

United Baskets by RF Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
United baskets by RF Studio Unique Piece Dimensions: D 300 x H 310 cm Materials: Reed United Baskets explores the process of landscape transformation and the persistence of local cr...
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2010s Post-Modern South American Folk Art

Materials

Reed

31 Brazilian Silver Amulets
Located in New York, NY
These 31 Brazilian amulets, or balangada, were hammered from sheets of silver in the 19th century to form pomegranates, sugar apples, guava, and other...
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Mid-19th Century Folk Art Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Silver

An Amazon Indigenous Kayapo feather headdress
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Brazil, Pará or Mato Grosso, circa 1950’s-1960s H. 55 x W. 38 cm (incl. stand) Provenance: Collection Rinck Hollnberger, Munich (purchased in the 1980s)
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20th Century South American Folk Art

Materials

String, Feathers

Peru Inca 1200 AD Lambayeque Pre-Columbian Blackware Ceramic Vase with Warrior
Located in Miami, FL
An Inca Peru pre-hispanic black ware huaco vessel, from Lambayeque. Beautiful piece, created under the Inca culture between the 750 / 1375 AD at the Sican...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Earthenware

Sculpture of an Owl in Resin, Abraham Palatinik, 1960 - Lot 738
By Abraham Palatnik
Located in New York, NY
This sculpture in resin of an owl is part of the Artemis collection that features hundreds of different animals, each with sleek, flat silhouettes. Original label on bottom. So if yo...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern South American Folk Art

Materials

Epoxy Resin

La Tolita-Tumaco Standing Female Figure
Located in Chicago, IL
This standing effigy was crafted in 500 A.D. - 1000 A.D. Mesoamerica using the gray clay paste that characterizes La Tolita-Tumaco ceramics of early Colombia-Ecuador. The art of La Tolita-Tumaco civilization is considered one of the most developed of the pre-Columbian period as metalwork and ceramics were the most popular form of cultural expression. The ceramic creations of this culture were often based on the human figure to create portraits of people and realistic daily scenes of life cycles and the human condition. This figure appears to be wearing a loincloth and is adorned with a beaded necklace and an elaborate coiffure or headdress. There are holes lining each ear indicating the potential use of ear spools...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

Gemstone sphere incense holder - celestina
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
Handmade and full of purpose: celestine incense holder brings harmony to your spiritual space. Your favorite incense is grounded within the smooth sphere of Peruvian Angelite stone,...
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21st Century and Contemporary South American Folk Art

Materials

Stone

Antique South American Spanish Colonial Folk Art Santos Figural Group
Located in London, GB
Antique South American Spanish Colonial Poly chrome Folk Art Santos figure The finely sculptured hard wood figure standing with a cross and bible on a pedestal base, painted in p...
Category

18th Century Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Gesso, Wood

Vintage Peruvian Folk Art Framed Negreria Dance Cape
Located in Forney, TX
A scarce framed fragment of "Negreria" dance cape, circa 1940s, Huayucachi, Junin, Peru. Dating to the mid-20th century, the rare large size South ...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile, Cotton, Sequins

Pre-Columbian Nazca Unku with Stepped “V” Design, Peru, 200-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Nazca Unku in vibrant red with blue, green, yellow and white squares forming V design around the brown neck opening. The multicolor squares in stepped design make a diamond ...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

Pre-Columbian Inca Mantle with 16 Figures, Peru, 1476-1534 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Inca Mantle with 16 figures in cubist form with multi-color fringes. This pieces with a Certificat de Bien Culturel from France. For the Incas finely worked and highly decorativ...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

A Kayapo Amazon Indigenous feather headdress
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Brazil, Pará, circa 1950s-1960s H. 97 x W. 106 cm Provenance: Collection Rinck Hollnberger, Munich (purchased in the 1980s)
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20th Century South American Folk Art

Materials

String, Feathers

Magnificent Chimu Precolumbian Tapestry with 21 Multicolor Royal Attendants
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete and magnificent Chimu Pre-Columbian Tapestry with 21 multicolor Royal attendants and fringe. No restoration, professionally cleaned. Overal...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Tapestry

Framed Pre-Colombian Peruvian Textile, 900 to 1470 AD
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Peruvian Pre-Colombian (Chancay) textile panel of camelid wool embroidered on cotton with three birds, each holding a lizard in its beak.
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15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Wool, Cotton

18th Century Spanish Colonial Carved Wood and Iron Stirrups
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of late 18th early 19th century South American carved wooden stirrups. Known as estribos, each are carved from a solid block of wood. Decorated with wonderful carvings of horse heads and grape vines, these are truly charming pieces. With wrought iron stirrup rings and the original leather straps. Rich chocolate patina that only comes from age and use. Worn by Chilean huasos, highly skilled horsemen akin to America's cowboys. Prized by collectors of horse memorabilia...
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1790s Spanish Colonial Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Antique South American Native Hand Woven Geometric Design Sling Bag
Located in New York, NY
South American native geometric design sling bag with shoulder strap. Finely woven with natural dyed and undyed natural cactus fiber. It has been stored impeccably over the years an...
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20th Century Tribal South American Folk Art

Materials

Natural Fiber

Box with a corrugated, embossed, polychrome wooden core Colonial work Perú
Located in Madrid, España
Box with a corrugated, embossed, polychrome wooden core and leaf decoration. Iron lock and hinges with key, the interior lined with a marbled effect. Colonial work from the Viceroyal...
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Mid-17th Century Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Leather, Wood

Native American Indian Large Shipibo-Conibo Peruvian Amazon Pottery Jar Vase
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful geometric patterned and designed hand painted and glazed Native American large earthenware jar/vase/pot made by the Shipibo-Conibo people, an indigenous people along the ...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art South American Folk Art

Materials

Earthenware, Pottery, Paint

Pre-Columbian Rare Gold Veraguas/Diquis Supernatural Drummer Pink Tourmaline
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Natural pink tourmaline necklace (167 gms) with rare gold Veraguas/Diquis supernatural drummer. Very fine example of ancient, Precolumbian goldwork form Central America, either Costa Rica or Panama. 111 grams of blush pink gold made with “lost wax” technique. The music he plays is not for entertainment, but rather to create magic, casting a spell or summoning other supernatural beings. Healing was the most important function of shamans, both the mortal and the immortal kind. Such a magical pendant...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Gold

Rare South American colonial silver wood mate cup South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
A fine rare South American colonial silver and wood mate cup A beautifully crafted colonial-period mate cup, fashioned from rich dark hardwood with elegant silver mounts. The body i...
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18th Century Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Silver

Collection of Two Pre-Columbian Cupisnique Stirrup Ceramic Vessels Peru
Located in Atlanta, GA
A collection of two small pre-Columbian ceramic stirrup vessels in Cupisnique style circa 700-500BCE. These ancient vessels from the formative period are distinct in a robust form wi...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

Peru Pre Inca 100-700 Ad Moche Pre Columbian Personified Vessel in Earthenware
Located in Miami, FL
Rare pre Hispanic Moche culture, pre-Inca earthenware vessel. A beautiful interesting piece, created in the southern Peru region around the 100-700 AD by the Moche culture. This rare early period...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Earthenware, Pottery

15th Century or Earlier Redware Tangas, Marajoara Culture, Marajo Island, Brazil
Located in Point Richmond, CA
15th Century or Earlier Redware Tangas, Marajoara culture, Marajo Island, Brazil Tangas are thin concave triangular ceramic pubic covers found in burial mounds associated with fem...
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15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Earthenware

Modernist Abstract Ecuadorian Tapestry / Wall Hanging Designed by Olga Fisch
By Olga Fisch
Located in Buffalo, NY
Stunning Modernist Abstract Ecuadorian Tapestry / wall hanging designed by Olga Fisch.... Of Hungarian origin, Olga Fisch (1901-1991) emigrated in...
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage South American Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Pre-Columbian Chavín vessel, 900 BC – 300 BC.
Located in Madrid, ES
Pre-Columbian vessel from the Chavín culture in the form of a seated man, probably a hunter, with an animal on his back. Chavín art is known for its complex iconography and mythical ...
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15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Earthenware

Carved Stone Cockatoo Sculpture
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Carved stone cockatoo sculpture caught in the action of landing on an amethyst geode. Featuring a lofty combination of colors and textures with an u...
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20th Century Folk Art South American Folk Art

Materials

Crystal

South American Cowhide Leather Trunk
Located in Queens, NY
South American Colonial (Peruvian 19th Cent) cowhide and leather floor trunk (Bataca) with a geometric strap design.
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19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Cowhide, Leather

Prehistoric South American Moche Red Ware Vessel
Located in Coeur d Alene, ID
Moche Red Ware pottery vessel with copulating motif. Horizon of Peru, Circa 450 - 550 CE. 9” x 5” x 7 ½”. Ex. Hank Johnson Collection. Hank Johnson was a geologist, and passionate collector of historical and ancient artifacts. Starting with relics and bottles from ghost towns, he later focused on Anasazi pottery...
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15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

circa 1900 Bolivian Alpaca Wool Poncho
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Circa 1900 Bolivian Alpaca wool poncho Woven of alpaca wool and dyed with natural dyes, this small poncho from the highlands of Bolivia is patterned with two simple wide stripes i...
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Early 20th Century Tribal South American Folk Art

Materials

Wool

9th Century Silver Processional Priest s Hats, Chimu Culture, Peru
Located in Point Richmond, CA
9th century silver processional priest's hats, Chimu culture, Peru. These silver hats were originally covered with fabric, as can be seen in the remaining surface pattern. The hol...
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15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Silver

Pre-Columbian ceramics jar – Tiahuanaco Culture
Located in Madrid, ES
"Pre-Columbian Ceramics – Tiahuanaco Culture" Material: Ceramic Origin: Southern Sierra of Peru, Lake Titicaca Plateau Period: Boom Age (1 AD – 800 AD) Dimensions: 16 x 12 x 14 cm Co...
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15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

Pre-Columbian Ceramics – Titicaca Culture
Located in Madrid, ES
"Pre-Columbian Ceramics – Titicaca Culture" Material: Ceramic Origin: Southern Sierra of Peru, Lake Titicaca Plateau Period: Boom Age (1 AD – 800 AD) Dimensions: 15 x 14 cm in diame...
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15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

Rare 18th Century Painted Shrine
Located in Rio De Janeiro, BR
This magnificent 18th-century Brazilian shrine, originating from Minas Gerais, is a stunning example of Colonial baroque religious craftsmanship. Crafted from wood and adorned with h...
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Late 18th Century Baroque Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Framed Pre-Columbian Proto Nazca Textile Frangment
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Proto-Nazca textile fragment from Southern Peru circa 100BC-200AD. The linked munecas ("dolls" in Spanish) figures were woven with fibers likely from l...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Pre-Columbian ceramics pot – Tiahuanaco Culture
Located in Madrid, ES
"Pre-Columbian Ceramics – Tiahuanaco Culture" Material: Ceramic Origin: Southern Sierra of Peru, Lake Titicaca Plateau Period: Boom Age (1 AD – 800 AD) Dimensions: 9 x 14 cm in diam...
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15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

Pre-Columbian Chimu Gold Mask With Scar
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A large sheet gold mask depicting a stylized human face having an individually fashioned and applied nose. Large low relief repousse eyes and rectangular mou...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Gold

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