Ancient Pre-Columbian Colima Redware Ceramic Gourd Vessel Circa 100 BC Ex-Museum Sold a renowned platform for artists

a renowned platform for artists of the time

or many other variety of uses

and each saint holds a scroll with prayers or a prayerbook

United Kingdom

This late 1600s pair of Spanish albarelli are of cylindrical waisted form and having a wide slightly flared mouth

Ancient Pre-Columbian Colima Redware Ceramic Gourd Vessel Circa 100 BC Ex-Museum Sold a renowned platform for artistsAn important large Pre Columbian Colima gourd with parrots, Comala style Protoclassic, circa 100 BC, Ex Museum collection. This beautifully burnished redware fluted vessel depicts domesticated or wild squash which are one of the many vegetable forms seen in the Comala style from Colima. Here parrots forming tripod supports eagerly nibble into the fruit. The vessel was collected in the late 19th century and latterly was housed in a museum and de