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Period: 15th Century and Earlier
Neolithic Grinding Stone from Denmark, circa 3900 – 1700 BCE
Located in Kastrup, DK
Grinding stone used for sharpening and polishing flint tools during the Stone Age. The surface is smooth and slightly curved, shaped through prolonged use. It was likely employed to ...
Category
Danish Folk Art Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Stone
African Tribal Art Antique Ancient Koma Terracotta Ghana Abstract Sculpture
Located in London, GB
A striking abstract modelled terracotta figural torso the expressive visage gesticulating with open singing mouth and beard and ridged coiffure carrying a object on his back, in heavy solid terracotta with red pigment A splendid and rare example of ancient abstract art.
Size: H 8.5 " W 5 W 2.5 . 22x12 x6cm on included high quality custom metal stand. overall height including stand 13.5 " , 35 cm
West Africa, Ghana, Koma Land culture, 13th to 16th century CE
Ex Anthony Powell...
Category
Ghanaian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
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 ...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Textile
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...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Tapestry
Apulian Kylix – South Italian Greek Pottery Antiquities 4th Century BC
Located in London, GB
Apulian Geometric Kylix – South Italian Greek Pottery, 4th Century BC
A fine Apulian kylix from South Italy, dating to the 4th century BC, decorated in a bold geometric leaf/foliate motif typical of the Apulian workshops. This elegant drinking cup features a shallow bowl, graceful elongated handles with upturned ends, and a low foot—classic elements of the South Italian Greek kylix form.
The exterior displays a warm natural clay ground contrasted with strong black-painted decoration, while the interior is finished in a rich, lustrous black slip. The combination of geometric leaf stylisation and refined proportions places this kylix within the later phase of Apulian regional production. the style developed in Athens and later was widely adopted by Greek colonies in Southern Italy. Apulian vase...
Category
Italian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
A Rare Standing Stone / Slab / Marker with ‘Triskele’ Low Relief Design
Located in London, GB
A Rare Standing Stone / Slab / Marker with ‘Triskele’ Low Relief Design
Sandstone
Late Celtic - Early Christian
7th – 8th Century AD
Size: 62cm high, 28cm wide, 19cm deep - 24½ i...
Category
British Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Sandstone
AR Denarius Julia Paula, wife of Elagabalus (219-220)
Located in UTRECHT, UT
Obverse: IVLIA PAVLA AVG, draped bust right, showing later coiffure with small bun
Reverse: CONCORDIA, Concordia seated left, holding patera, star in left field
Beautifully detaile...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Pre-Columbian Ceramic Head Fragment
Located in Chicago, IL
This intriguing head fragment was once attached to a pre-Columbian bust or full effigy figurine. Earthenware figurines like this were made in great abundance throughout Mesoamerican history, serving a wide variety of purposes and functions from religious rituals to burial offerings.
Figurines like this commemorated important people and events across Mesoamerica, portraying individuals of different rank and status such as soldiers, merchants, bureaucrats, and occasionally divinities. This figure is adorned with an elaborate headdress, or coiffure, and ear spools...
Category
Central American Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
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.
Category
Peruvian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Ancient Paestan Red-Figure Kylix
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Attributed to The Painter of Naples 1778.
Elegantly potted this kylix sits on a high foot, with a lively painted satyr and draped female figure decorating the tondo. The satyr stand...
Category
Italian Classical Greek Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
Ceramic Pre-Columbian Colima Hunchback Figure Vessel
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pre-Columbian figural vessel from West Mexico Colima culture (circa 300BC-400AD). Made of molded clay, the stoneware vessel depicts a seated hunchback...
Category
Mexican Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Pre-Columbian Chancay textile mask South American Art Antiques
Located in London, GB
Pre-Columbian Chancay textile mask South American Art Antiques
A Pre-Columbian Chancay textile mask, originating from the central coast of Peru and dating to approximately 1000–1450...
Category
Peruvian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Pre-Columbian Head
Located in Savannah, GA
A pro-columbian head.
3 ¾ inches wide by 3 inches deep by 2 ¼ inches tall
Category
Unknown Folk Art Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
Prehistoric Majested Seated Drummer Figurine
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Prehistoric majestic seated drummer figurine from Nayarit, West Mexico. Sporting a nose ring, complex ear ornaments, armlets and an open mouth that would seem to indicate a 'singing'...
Category
American Native American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Clay
Pre-Columbian Cupisnique Stirrup Vessel from Peru
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pre-Columbian ceramic stirrup vessel in Cupisnique style circa 700-500BCE. This ancient vessel features a robust squatted body and a short thick stirr...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Casas Grandes Pottery Olla
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Prehistoric Casas Grandes pottery olla. Hand coiled and painted polychrome design. Restored. Two strap holes. Four geomorphic faces. Rim crack through one hole. Ex. Barnard. 6"D x 7"...
Category
American Native American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Prehistoric Casas Grandes Pottery Fish
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Pre-Columbian, Northern Mexico, Chihuahua, Mogollon culture, Casas Grandes or Paquime, ca. 1130 to 1450 CE. A charming pottery vessel in the form of a fish featuring a bulbous body w...
Category
American Native American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Very Rare and Early Carved Vessel in the Form of a Hedgehog
Located in London, GB
A Very Rare and Early Carved Vessel in the Form of a Hedgehog
Alabaster
Near Eastern
3rd Millenium BC
SIZE: 9.5cm high, 9.5cm wide, 15.5cm deep - 3¾ ins high, 3¾ ins wide, 6 ins ...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Alabaster
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...
Category
South American Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Ancient American "Human Effigy" Stone Paint Pallet, Anasazi Culture 900 AD
Located in South Burlington, VT
Early American Pre-Historic Human Effigy Stone Paint Pallet, Anasazi culture 900 AD
All stone carvings from America's Prehistoric southwest are scarce. The majority of known carved stones come from the
Mimbres, Hohokam or Casas cultures. So examples of stone carvings from the Anasazi culture
(circa 900–1300 AD) are rare especially human forms which are the rarest and some consider most desirable.
This pallet is likely unique.
The distinguishing characteristic of our paint pallet from the Anasazi culture is its creation from red sandstone- a material that was not used by
the Mimbres, Hohokam or Casas cultures.
Dimensions: 9.25 inches tall, 4.87 inches wide
Quality: it exhibits no less than seven distinct pigment colors on the surface. The obverse has a distinctive head with three dimensional eyes and nose; there are four horizontal bands of color: red, white, dark red/white and black. The center of the pallet has a distinctive white pigment and the border is executed in both red and black. There are two well-defined legs, one red and the other black, which terminate in distinctive feet. On the reverse we find in the center seven clearly defined concentric painted rings, each a different color.
Provenance: old New England collection
Lifetime guarantee of authenticity: All of our works of art come with our lifetime authenticity guarantee.
Our gallery has been dealing in authentic Native...
Category
American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Sandstone
$12,000 Sale Price
35% Off
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...
Category
Peruvian Tribal Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Prehistoric Casas Grandes Pottery Olla
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Prehistoric Casas Grandes pottery olla. Hand coiled and painted polychrome design. Ex. Barnard. 5" x 5".
Casas Grandes (Spanish for Great Houses; also known as Paquime) is a prehi...
Category
American Native American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Rare Pre-Columbian Chimu Stirrup Vessel – Sea Plant or Fungi Motif
Located in London, GB
Rare Pre-Columbian Chimu Stirrup Vessel – Sea Plant or Fungi Motif – 12th–14th Century AD, Peru
An intriguing and rare Chimu stirrup vessel from Pre-Columbian Peru, dating to the 12...
Category
Peruvian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
$571 Sale Price
40% Off
Ancient Egyptian Wall-Painting Fragment
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This beautifully preserved fragment of a wall painting is executed on plaster with an ochre and blue ground, depicting an agricultural scene with a man in profile to the right. He w...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Plaster
Roman Carved Marble Torso in Military Dress, circa 2nd-3rd Century
Located in Austin, TX
A well carved Roman marble figure of a male in military dress, late Roman Period, circa 2nd-3rd century.
The figure portrayed dressed in military att...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Marble
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...
Category
Brazilian Tribal Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
Egyptian Mummy Mask, Late Period, ca. 700-30 B.C.
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Carved hardwood mummy mask having a pink-brown painted ground, painted black eyes and brows. Wearing a black headband. Eyes and brows are restored. Scattere...
Category
Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Hardwood
Elegant Terracotta Standing Court Dignitary, Tang Dynasty, EU Passport
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Elegant Standing Court Dignitary with joined hands in blue robes and a bird headdress. Polychrome Traces.
When China was unified again, first briefly ...
Category
Chinese Tang Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
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...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Petite Pre-Columbian Redware Olla
Located in Chicago, IL
Exhibiting a rich patina and a beautifully irregular pattern of pitted wear, this petite redware olla vessel shows many telltale signs of Pre-Columbian pottery. The vessel has a glob...
Category
Central American Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Antique African Neolithic Era Marble Bracelet
Located in Katonah, NY
:: Antique handmade African Neolithic era marble bracelet. These marble bracelets were hand carved in North Africa and likely used for currency. This piece is a unique collectible, w...
Category
North African Prehistoric Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Marble
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...
Category
Peruvian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre-Columbian Ceremonial Inca Tokapu of Multicolor Geometric Diamond Shapes
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Magnificent Ceremonial Inca Tokapu of Multicolor Geometric Diamond Shapes.
Tokapu were textiles worn by the Inca elite consisting of geometric figures enclosed by rectangles or squa...
Category
Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Edward III 1361-1369 Gold Noble Treaty Period 1361 - 1369, London
Located in Braintree, GB
Edward III 1361-1369 Gold Noble Treaty Period 1361 - 1369, London.
Country: England
England
Period: House of Plantagenet
Ruler: Edward III
Phase: treaty period (1361-1369)
Producti...
Category
British Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Gold
Pre-Columbian Prehistoric Large Pottery Dog Head
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Large Pottery Dog Head from West Mexico. Lobed base with dog head emerging from upper shoulder of vessel. Chip on dog muzzle and jar rim. Dates between 200 BC and 200 AD. 7 ¼”D x 7 ¼...
Category
Mexican Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Clay
American "Human Effigy" Female Stone Sculpture, Tennessee, 1000 AD
Located in South Burlington, VT
A Native American Human Effigy female statue, Holliston Mills Site, Tennessee , sandstone, circa 1000 AD
Dimensions: 11.75 inches tall and 3.75 inches width 5.75 diameter
All stone carvings from America's Prehistoric past are scarce. The majority of known carved stones come from the far western Mimbres, Hohokam or Casas cultures.
This sculpture is unique.
Quality: fine original condition with varigated patina as found. Notice the detail of the carved ear spools...
Category
American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Sandstone
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...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Gold
A Finely Carved Gandhara Head of ‘Atlas’
Located in London, GB
A Finely Carved Gandhara Head of ‘Atlas’
Grey schist
India
3rd - 4th Centuries AD
SIZE: 19cm high, 11cm wide, 12.5cm deep - 7½ ins high, 4¼ ins wide, 5 ...
Category
Indian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Schist
Pre-Columbian Ica Fringed Textile Panel, Ex Kate Kemper, Peru 800 to 1200 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A semi-ovoid rectangular panel with heavily fringed border having a very tightly woven multi-color geometric pattern consisting of two scroll devices containing multiple stylized zoo...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Lambayeque Textile Ceremonial Panel
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Impressive pre-columbian Lambayeque textile ceremonial panel. Lambayeque, Peru. Mint condition. Museum piece. Ex. Sotheby’s, New York.
The Lambayeque civilization (aka Sicán) flou...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Textile
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 ...
Category
South American Tribal Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Earthenware
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...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Pre-Columbian Earthenware Female Figure, Nayarit, Mexico
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Pre-Columbian Earthenware Female Figure, Nayarit, Mexico
A tall standing nude female figure of the San Sebastian Red type. The expressive face is adorned with ear ornaments and a sh...
Category
Mexican Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Terracotta
Pre-Columbian Manabi (Ecuador) Pottery Dog
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Manabi (Ecuador) Pottery dog figure with incising. 4 ½” x 2 ½” x 3 ½”. 100 BCE - 250 CE Ex. Hank Johnson Collection. Hank Johnson was a geologist, and pas...
Category
Mexican Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Clay
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...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Gold
46.55 Carat Stunning Bi Color Drilled Tourmaline Carving from Madagascar Africa
By Deloris "Dee" Giltz 1
Located in Peshawar, PK
46.55 Carat Stunning Bi Color Drilled Tourmaline Carving From Madagascar Africa
Bicolor Tourmaline Carved
Weight: 46.55 Carats
Dimension: 3.3 x ...
Category
Malagasy Adam Style Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Crystal
Ancient Roman Marble Column Capital
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An exceptional marble capital of the classic Corinthian order with 3 tiers of foliate acanthus leaves. Both large and well preserved our beautiful example retains much of its crisp ...
Category
Italian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Marble
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...
Category
South American Tribal Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Indian Sandstone Nandi Sculptures, Pair
Located in Astoria, NY
Indian stone carvings depicting reclining a cow / bull / ox, Nandi, or Vrishabha, the bull vahana or vehicle of the god Shiva, outfitted with saddles, bridles, and headpieces upon th...
Category
Indian Archaistic Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Sandstone
$5,500 Sale Price / set
57% Off
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...
Category
South American Tribal Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Textile with 12 Animals, Ex-Kate Kemper
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Large, rectangular section of loosely woven cotton in an open, net pattern weave. Bears three complete selvedges and has 12 square sections, each containing a horned animal with curled tail surrounded by a meandering, geometric border. Excellent condition. Backed on black cotton.
Kate Kemper, of London and Switzerland (1908-2004) was an early collector of Andean art, forming an important collection of ceramics and textiles after visiting Peru. Her comprehensive collection was formed in Europe and exhibited in various museums including Ancient Peruvian...
Category
Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Pair of Ancient Egyptian Gesso-Painted Wood Panels
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This exquisite and fascinating pair of gesso-painted wooden panels comes mounted within custom wooden frames. Both panels are of roughly similar sizes, horizontal in nature, and lik...
Category
Egyptian Egyptian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood
Pre-Columbian Chancay Canteen Vessel South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Rare Pre-Columbian Chancay Vessel – Peru, C 1000-1450 AD
A Rare Pre-Columbian Chancay canteen type vessel, ovoid with a slim flat bottom, pottery with cream slip painted with re...
Category
Peruvian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Pre Columbian Head Veracruz pottery Mexico Circa 600-900 A.D
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Veracruz Head
A Large pre columbian pottery head of a priest or warrior with delineated teeth and large earrings, modeled in buff clay with applied bitumen decoration o...
Category
Mexican Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre-Columbian Chancay Painted Panel with Two Figures Side by Side
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Chancay painted panel with two figurines side by side. This is a complete panel with two rectangular box-headed personages on a busily packed background of geometric motifs of circle...
Category
Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Textile
15th Century Oil Painting on Board
Located in Dallas, TX
This gorgeous Dutch painting features a woman with an infant and small child. Painting is from the 1450s.
Category
European Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Pre-Columbian Warrior Banner, Chimu, Peru, circa 1100-1476 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Pre-Columbian ornamental banner with fringes composed of warriors/divinities holding figures in their hands, surrounded by geometric frets. Two-headed birds in alternating colors decorate the top and bottom of the banner. This one-of-a-kind tapestry has preserved its vibrant original colors and fibres. Professionally cleaned.
Provenance: Private European Collection
Textiles from elite Chimu tombs include elaborate gauzes, embroidery, painted plain weave and tapestry, and three-dimensional fibre sculptures. Among others, shades of yellow and brown, scarlet, white, lavender-blue and olive green were the colors used. Birds and a deity wearing a crescent-like headdress have been the most popular decorative motifs.
Many Chimu textiles...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Casas Grandes Ramos Prehistoric Pottery Olla
Located in Coeur d
Alene, ID
Pre-Columbian, Northern Mexico, Chihuahua region, Casas Grandes, Ramos Polychrome type, ca. 1150 to 1450 CE. A hand-built and stone-burnished pottery olla jar of a globular form with...
Category
American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Rare Pre-Columbian Inca Silver Mask with Gold Sequins
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A rare, sheet silver human face mask with simple relief facial features including large, almond shaped eyes and downturned mouth. Classic stepped pyramid headdress with round, very t...
Category
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Roman Micro-Mosaic Portrait of a Warrior Woman in Concrete
Located in Middleburg, VA
This incredible Roman micro-mosaic portrait of a woman shows off a woman warrior in all her glory. Not only interesting because of its age, but the subject...
Category
Italian Greco Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Folk Art
Materials
Stone, Concrete
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