Peruvian Folk Art

Spanish Colonial South American Folk Art, Hand-carved and gilded wooden devotional shrine featuring the Virgin Mary, richly framed with ornate scrolling foliage and floral decorati...

Bathing of the Christ Child, Cusco School, 20th century Small scale size Oil on canvas, Peru. A charming well executed and richly decorative devotional scene depicting the Christ Ch...

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,...

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...

Monumental Amazonian Shipibo-Conibo Anthropomorphic Pottery Vessel with Kené Patterning, Peru A rare and visually commanding 20th century pottery vessel from the Shipibo-Conibo cult...

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 ...

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...

18th Century Spanish Colonial Oil Painting on Board A characterful Spanish Colonial devotional painting, oil on board, dating to the 18th century. The work depicts the Virgin of Mer...

Incredible large scale 19th Century Peruvian Cuzco School Oil Painting on Canvas (later laid on board) of Madonna and the Christ Child with the Three Kings. Later Giltwood Frame. We...

Incan Kero Tumbler-shaped drinking vessel Period: 15th 16th Century Region: Peru Material: Wood Polychroming Finest in the world! Museum quality! Keros were used in Peru to consum...

Huaco with Ai Apaec Moche, Peru c. AD 200–800 Terracotta 22.5 cm high Condition: Good state of preservation. Provenance: Private collection of Remy Rey, London, United Kingdom....

Rare Pre-Columbian Nasca Ceramic Drum Vessel Culture: Nasca (Nazca), South Coast of Peru Period: ca. 200–600 CE (Early Intermediate Period) Material: Burnished ceramic with painted ...

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...

A Fine Old Pair of Gaucho Spurs, Argentina A well-made traditional pair of Argentine Gaucho spurs, crafted in brass . The workmanship shows classic regional styling, with elegant sha...

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...

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...

This traditional Peruvian storytelling gourd, or mate burilado, reflects a craft practiced in Peru for over 4,000 years. Measuring 15 inches across and 8.5 inches high, it is an impr...

Pre Columbian Taíno Effigy Vessel Greater Antilles (Hispaniola or Puerto Rico), c. 1000–1500 CE Taíno Stone Pestle A Taíno stone pestle, carved in green-brown stone with a simple,...

Be inspired by this angelite puzzle: decorate, relax and play with intention. The burr puzzle is of mysterious origin, first seen engraved on the cover of Chambers's Cyclopaedia. A ...

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...

Integrate the grounding essence of natural stone into your daily habits for those intervals that call for a more measured tempo. Meticulously hand-carved into a striking geometric sp...

19th Century Peruvian Cuzco School Oil Painting on Canvas of Saint Rose of Lima. Later Frame. Wear commensurate with age, some crackle to the surface. The Cuzco or Cusco school was...

Peruvian retablo purchased from the Evelyn Ackerman estate. This colorful piece features two hinged doors with floral paintings. The interior showcases small ceramic figurines in wha...

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...

Incorporate the energy of natural stone into your daily rituals for those moments that require a slower pace. Hand-carved into a beautiful moon-like curved lip, this semi-precious ge...

Is it a nostalgic throwback to the past or the ultimate modern phone stand? Hand-carved from natural gemstone, this brick-shaped holder serves as a substa...

19th Century Peruvian Cuzco School Oil Painting on Canvas of St Christopher carrying the Christ child across the river. Later Frame. Wear commensurate with age, some crackle to the...

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....

Incorporate the energy of natural stone into your daily rituals for those moments that require a slower pace. Hand-carved into a beautiful moon-like curved lip, this semi-precious ge...

Integrate the grounding essence of natural stone into your daily habits for those intervals that call for a more measured tempo. Meticulously hand-carved into a striking geometric sp...

Set of four antique carved gourds from Peru, three little ones with silver settings and decorations and a large carved gourd. A Gourd is a crop plant in...

Pre Hispanic earth ware vessel from the pre-Inca Chimu culture. Beautiful ancient vessel, created in northern coast of Peru around the 900 / 1470 AD. by the Chimu culture. This is...

Ancient Proto-Nazca Red and Yellow Spider Rug Fragment, c. 200 AD Dating to c. 200–500 AD, this exceptional textile reflects the artistry of the Nazca civi...

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...

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...

Chimu brown gauze shirt with multiple red and white fringe lines forming V designs like the one around the neck, with very rarely seen sleeves and border fringe in the same material.

Inca Complete Uncu of beautiful geometric composition with serpent form in red, purple and yellow. This beautiful poncho of a geometric composition has only some worn out sections on...

Very colorful complete Nazca unku in multi-color camelid wool with lozenge diamond and zig-zag design patterns. The beautiful blue and light pink color makes this textile very unique...

Pre-Columbian textile fragment with wave like patterns woven in bright colors. Framed in a black shadow box. It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts - so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs. Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...

Beautiful Pre-columbian Mantle with a Central Kilim Type Tapisserie of Multicolor Designs with Priests Upraising their Arms Toward the Skies. It is surrounded by 2 Long Red Plain Cot...

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 ...

Ceramic Votive Plaque, Chucu Culture, Araquipa, Southern Andes, Peru, circa 14th Century A curved ceramic plaque painted with anthropomorphic figures and stylized animals (presumabl...

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...

An intact shirt with motif of rows of feathers in several shades of mustard yellow on a red ground, depicted as they would have been attached in rows in an actual feather textile.

Complete Pre-Columbian Nazca textile with stepped zig-zag design in yellow, ochre red, and brown/black shades with yellow fringes.

It is a beautiful carved stone known as Huamanga stone, endemic of the Zone of Ayacucho, Viceroyalty of Peru. With a refined regional touch and loaded of pre-Columbian flavor as Chinese, It represents the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and Jesus with God Father...

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...

Magnificent Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho with a Geometric Step Design in Vibrant Ochre, Red, Green and Brown colors with its Original Fringes. Moun...

Antique South American Spanish Colonial Poly chrome Folk Art Santos figural group High Andes (Altiplano region, Peru or Bolivia), late 18th–early 19th century Hand-carved and p...

Nazca Tunic/Poncho of stepped design and fringe in yellow ocher, burgundy and brown. Perfect condition, museum quality.

Moche Red Ware Pottery Vessel with man figure. Moche Horizon of Peru, Circa 450 - 550 CE. In overall good condition, some chipping around the mouth of the narrow spout, and there’s a small spiderweb push on the back of the jar that appears to have resulted from a probe that penetrated the left side just below the figure (two small holes, one on the front upper left corner of the throne, and the other just around to the side, have been repaired). 6” x 4” x 6”. 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...

Magnificent Pre-Columbian multi-color Chancay textile with animal figures in cubist form. The Chancay are known more for their textiles than for their ceramics. Textiles from elite Chancay tombs include elaborate gauzes, embroidery, painted plain weave and tapestry, and three-dimensional fibre...

A large coper mask of a dignitary with almond shaped, inset shell eyes with pupils and a wide brim type crown. Attached at the brow line, a row of danglers is suspended, aligning the...

This zoomorphic vessel in the shape of a llama with an elongated globular body is from the Chancay civilisation, dated between 1000 and 1400 AD. Th...

Funerary Post with female figure Chimu, Peru, 1st Millennium AD. Wood Height 106 cm Provenance - Jean Pierre Cottier and Fiorella Cottier-Angeli Collection, Geneva, Switzerland. Acquired by Yossef Maiman between 2000 and 2008. - Private collection, Israel, until 2024. Condition Good state of preservation, no restorations. Published - ROSENZWIG, A.; WOLOSZYN, J. Z. Offerings for the Afterlife. Peruvian Pottery and Artifacts from the Maiman Collection. AMPAL/MERHAV Group of Companies. Israel. 2008. Fig. 102. Description Funerary pole topped by a female figure in the round, both carved from a single piece of wood. This type of object was used as a grave marker and was especially important in the desert areas of pre-Columbian Peru, as it made it possible to easily locate the burial site during funeral rituals or ancestor worship. Figurative funerary poles are rare among Chimú wooden statuary, although they share formal characteristics with the more common freestanding sculpture. The face is polychrome, predominantly a bright red pigment of cinnabar-colored resin. The figure is shown standing, with legs together and arms extended at both sides of the body, in a conventional, hieratic, and solemn posture. The figure is monolithic, although the main parts of the anatomy are perfectly differentiated, worked with a synthetic and geometric language. The obvious disproportion of the head, which is very large relative to the body, responds to a symbolic intention that probably alludes to the identity of the figure to whom the tomb belongs. The face is highly expressive in its synthesis, with almond-shaped eyes painted dark brown in contrast to the red of the face, framed by raised eyelids and nestled beneath eyebrows drawn with a fine beveled line. The nose is very prominent, completely flat, and with a curved profile, and the mouth stands out for its expression: open, deeply hollow, and framed by long nasolabial furrows worked in relief, which begin at the base of the nose and end at the chin, which protrudes slightly from the plane. The large ears, flat on the forehead and convex at the back, are decorated with an incised spiral design representing cartilage. The head ends in a gentle curve, probably representing a bonnet, which is painted in the same brown tone as the eyes. The body is depicted nude, with the breasts and pubis worked in flat relief, forming a formal interplay of inverted triangles. The joints of the arms and legs, as well as the fingers and toes, are clearly indicated, although without seeking naturalistic detail. A Chimú funerary pole is preserved in Princeton, also topped by a female figure, which displays significant similarities to the piece under study, both in posture, proportions, and overall composition, as well as in the polychromy and facial expression, with an open, hollow mouth. Wooden statuary is a little-known manifestation of Chimú art, given the few preserved examples due to Peru's climatic conditions. Although some have been found in the coastal deserts, thanks to their dry climate. In general, Chimú anthropomorphic sculptures follow a conventional model showing the figure standing frontally, with accentuated bilateral symmetry. These sculptures generally represent men, with female figures being much rarer, and they are rarely depicted clothed. In the few examples found with carved clothing, designs characteristic of the well-known Chimú textile art can be seen, as is the case with a funerary pole, also from Princeton, which includes animal figures on the sleeves of the tunic, and another auctioned in Paris in 2013, which displays a fringed profile and various geometric embroideries. The Chimú culture was born on the northern coast of Peru after the fall of the Huari Empire, around 1100 AD, and developed until approximately 1400. Although it is considered the heir of the Moche culture, Chimú mythology places the origin of its people in the arrival on the Peruvian coast of the fleet of Taycanamo, the mythical founder and first ruler of the kingdom, who would have combined political and priestly functions. Their territory, which once covered some 1,300 km, was centered in the Moche River valley and their capital was the great city of Chan Chan. Most of the territory is a very arid coastal desert, although it is crisscrossed by numerous rivers that bring water from the Andes, creating fertile valleys in their wake. Thanks to the use of enormous aqueducts and an extensive network of irrigation canals, the Chimú reclaimed large tracts of agricultural land from the desert, where they grew cotton and all kinds of foodstuffs. The territory of the Chimú kingdom was also crisscrossed by trade routes, which had their caravan center in Chan Chan and transported subsistence goods as well as luxury items. Many Chimú cults and rituals were oriented toward promoting fertility in the fields, given the aridity of the territory, and closely linked religion and politics. The main propitiatory rites for agricultural fertility were based on the veneration of the mummies of the ancestors of the reigning dynasty. Chimú artistic production includes featherwork, wood carving, textiles, and shell and hard stone work. Thanks to the influence of the neighboring Lambayeque people, who would eventually join the Chimú Empire, goldsmithing techniques were perfected for working with copper, silver, and gold. These techniques were used to create luxury objects such as vases, ear ornaments, and masks worn by the noble classes during ceremonial ceremonies. Chimú pottery...

A woven textile shirt of rectangular form having small rectangular panels on the front and back, all with fringed borders, and open head slit in center. Decorated with zigzag rows of...

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...

Bold color and dramatic design make this style a favorite among collectors of modern art. Excellent condition. Several minor holes are effectively backed with a compatible color, and...

Extremely detailed yellow embroidered Pre-Columbian textile fragment with hints of red from the Chancay culture in Peru. This piece is framed in a black shadowbox. It is a wonder to behold antiquities such as a Pre-Columbian textiles, an authentic piece of art that has been preserved for centuries and that survives generation after generation. Textiles are infinitely more delicate than wood, metal, or rock artifacts -- so the existence of these pieces after hundreds and thousands of years is exceptional. These textiles maintain their vibrant colors, natural threads, and their unique, historical designs. Provenance: This textile comes from the collection Ulrich Hoffmann, Stuttgart and former collection of the archaeologist Ferdinand Anton...

Rediscover the classic tic-tac-toe with this hand-carved stone game. The Andean Tic Tac Toe by DAR Proyectos is an elegant twist on the classic game, making for an attractive decor ...