Bidspirit auction | Pre-Columbian Style Ceramic Assortment

Pre-Columbian Style Ceramic Assortment - Pre-Columbian Style Ceramic Assortment (5) items including a Jaina style Mayan whistle depicting a personage in elaborate garb retaining faded blue and yellow pigments; a Zapotec black ware head pot depicting Cocijo the rain god; a Costa Rican jar having an applied relief decorative band with (3) frog effigies; a reticulated ceramic ear spool; and a bag of plain and decorated pottery shards and fragments of figurines Height: 5 inches, Length: 4 1/4 inches, Width: 2 1/2 inches (Jaina whistle) Condition: Very Good to Good, surface irregularities typical of hand-made pottery; whistle sounds, but having losses at top edge, chips at lower corners; head pot assembled from fragments with restorations; frog pot chipped at rim and at decoration having loss of a frog head; ear spool having a chip; shards are fragments of many larger items, none matching; overall light to heavy wear consistent with normal use Category: Decorative Arts > Ethnographic Estimated Sale Time: 11:29 am CST Shipping Status: Leonard Auction, Inc. will provide direct shipping for this lot. Please visit our website for a shipping estimate. Sales Tax: Illinois (8.000%), New Jersey (6.625%), Pennsylvania (8.000%), Washington (10.500%) Links to High Resolution Images: Image #1 Image #2 Image #3 Image #4 Image #5 Image #6 Condition: Very Good to Good, surface irregularities typical of hand-made pottery; whistle sounds, but having losses at top edge, chips at lower corners; head pot assembled from fragments with restorations; frog pot chipped at rim and at decoration having loss of a frog head; ear spool having a chip; shards are fragments of many larger items, none matching; overall light to heavy wear consistent with normal use Dimensions: 5 x 2.5 x 4.25 in