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Place of Origin: Peruvian
Pre-Columbian Multi-Color Chancay Textile, Cubist Animals, Peru 1100-1400 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
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
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Wool
Vintage Trio of Miniature Peruvian Paintings Art
Located in Southampton, NJ
Collection of 3 miniature back painted art of Peruvian scenes on glass. Frames are hand made plaster & coated in a metallic wash. Art is mounted on a wood back board.
Left Frame- 2...
Category
19th Century Mid-Century Modern Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Cut Glass, Acrylic, Plaster
Pre-Columbian Alabaster Sculpture – Inca Llama-Shaped Canopa
Located in Madrid, ES
Pre-Columbian alabaster sculpture – Inca Llama-shaped canopa
Dimensions: 5 x 5 x 1 cm
Small pre-Columbian ritual canopy carved in alabaster, representing a llama, a sacred animal in...
Category
16th Century Tribal Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Alabaster
Burr 3D gemstone puzzle in Black Onyx
Located in Pacasmayo, PE
Add character to your space with a black onyx puzzle: functional art that surprises.
The burr puzzle is of mysterious origin, first seen engraved on the cover of Chambers's Cyclopae...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Stone
$185 / item
Pre-Columbian Multi-Color Diamond Shaped Nazca Unku Textile, Peru, 200-400 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Striped Inca Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, circa 1400-1532 AD, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Earth tones adorn this striped pattern pre-Columbian textile. These piece is mounted on a black shadowbox frame.
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Chancay original Mummy Bundle Mask
Located in Leuven , BE
A hand-carved funerary mask meant to attach to a larger mummy bundle. The plank-form mask is painted with a broad red face accented with white, diamond-shaped eyes, a rectangular mou...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile, Wood
Pre-Columbian Alabaster Sculpture – Inca Llama-Shaped Canopa
Located in Madrid, ES
Pre-Columbian alabaster sculpture – Inca Llama-shaped canopa
Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 3 cm
Small pre-Columbian ritual canopy carved in alabaster, representing a llama, a sacred animal in...
Category
16th Century Tribal Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Alabaster
Pre-Columbian Mantle Kilim Type Tapisserie Multicolor Designs - Nazca 200-600 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Vibrant Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho, Peru 200-600 AD, Ex Guillot-muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Magnificent Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile Poncho with a Geometric Step Design in Vibrant Ochre, Red, Green and Brown colors with its Original Fringes. Moun...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
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
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic
United Baskets by Estudio Rafael Freyre
Located in Geneve, CH
United baskets by Estudio Rafael Freyre
Unique Piece
Dimensions: D 300 x H 310 cm
Materials: Reed
United Baskets explores the process of landscape transformation and the persis...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Reed
$23,533 / item
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
15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Silver
Pre-Columbian Inca Complete Uncu Textile, Peru 1300-1500 AD, Ex Guillot-Muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Manuel Sandoval Valez Latin American Figurative Ceramic Sculpture of a Newsboy
Located in Miami, FL
Manuel Sandoval Valez Latin American figurative Ceramic sculpture of a newsboy
Offered for sale is a folk art-style terracotta ceramic sculpture of a newsboy by Manuel Sandoval Va...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta
$125 Sale Price
28% Off
Pre-Columbian Small Chavin Feline Lime vessel ancient south America
Located in London, GB
Pre-Columbian Chavín Feline Lime Vessel – Ancient South American Pottery, 900 to 200 BCE
A remarkable Pre-Columbian Chavín lime vessel from anci...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
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
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Extremely Rare Pre-Columbian Chimu Gauze Poncho Textile, Peru, 1000-1450 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Moche Red Ware Pottery Vessel
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre-Columbian Nazca Unku with Stepped Zig-Zag Design, Peru 200-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Nazca unku with white, red, green, black and yellow step zig-zag design with red bottom with fringe and maroon upper part and beige trim around the arm and neck openings
...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Vivid Huari Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Zoomorphic Llama Vessel with an Elongated Body
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Clay
$2,038 Sale Price
70% Off
An Achuar feather headring
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Achuar people, Perú, Amazon region, early 20th century
Category
Early 20th Century Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Natural Fiber, Feathers
17th Century, Peruvian Huamanga Stone
Located in Mexico City, MX
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...
Category
17th Century Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Cuzco School Ex Voto Painting of St. Joseph Holding The Christ Child.
Located in Montreal, QC
Cuzco often has unusual iconography but this painting is perhaps unique. Saint Joseph, his hand raised in benediction cradles the child Christ with his own little crown of thorns and...
Category
1850s Folk Art Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Paint
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Pre-Columbian Chimu Textile, Meander Design and Fringe, Peru circa 900 to 1300AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Striped Inca Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru, circa 1400-1532 AD, Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Earth tones adorn this striped pattern pre-Columbian textile.
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Pre-Columbian Nazca Textile, Stepped Zig-Zag Design, Nazca Peru 200-400 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Pre-Columbian Nazca textile with stepped zig-zag design in yellow, ochre red, and brown/black shades with yellow fringes.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
Finest Monumental Inca Royal Yupana
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Yupanas were used as calculators or abaci during the Inca Period. This is one of the finest and monumental an example of a Inca table Royal Stone Yupana or...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Stone
Intricate Pre-Columbian Textile, Peru Ex Ferdinand Anton
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique Peruvian Folk Art
Materials
Textile
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