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Place of Origin: South American
Vintage Latin American Folk Art Serving Spatula
By OWO Ceramics
Located in Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, AR
Handmade vintage folk art Bolivian serving spatula. Embodying the rich cultural heritage of Latin American folk art, the serving utensil is in excellent condition and ready to be used. By seamlessly merging beauty, practicality, and history, this engraved spatula elevates the dining experience by infusing it with both aesthetics and cultural significance. The engraving details on this vintage spatula...
Category

20th Century Folk Art South American Folk Art

Materials

Silver, Nickel

Taukana Regui Wauja. Ceramic Kamalu hai Snake Canoe II, 2024
Located in PARIS, FR
"Kamalu hai (Snake Canoe) II" by Taukana Regui Wauja, 2024 This handbuilt ceramic sculpture by Taukana Regui Wauja, an Indigenous artist from the Wauja community in Brazil’s Xingu Te...
Category

2010s Folk Art South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic, Terracotta

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Wool

Three Surinam Rain Forest Artifacts
Located in Sharon, CT
Three Surinam Rain Forest decorative tribal objects produced in the Bush Negroe Villages of Guyana. A Cylindrical Drum. 25"x 8"diameter, a Rectangular Tray 25.75"x12"x.75" and a circ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Tribal South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

Peru Folk Art Pottery Clay Wicker Zoomorphic Bird Quinua Harvest Vase Sculpture
Located in Forney, TX
A rare and exceptional vintage Peruvian folk art pottery harvest vase. Hand-crafted in Peru, most likely Ayacucho region / Quinua, the South American primitive executed in distinct...
Category

20th Century Folk Art South American Folk Art

Materials

Clay, Pottery, Terracotta, Wicker

1970s Handmade Decorative Wood Paddles South American Amazon
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1970s Handmade Decorative Wood Paddles South American Amazon 53 tall x 10 w x 1 thick Short 51 tall X 11 w Preowned original vintage condition See all images please.
Category

Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

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

15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Earthenware

Monumental Cuban Bark Covered Cigar Shoulder Bag
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This large handmade leather and wood bark covered shoulder bag or humidor has a leather strap and wood top and base. The entire bag is covered in a bark and wood notts. The condition...
Category

20th Century Adirondack South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood, Leather

Pre-Columbian ceramics vessel– 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: 13 x 11 cm in dia...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Stone

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Stone

Prehistoric Jamacoaque Pottery Figure
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Prehistoric Jamacoaque Pottery Figure. Chip on helmet. 11” x 5” x 7”. Ex. Hank Johnson Collection. Hank Johnson was a geologist, and passionate collector of historical and ancient ar...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Clay

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile, Wood

Late 19th Century Carved Spanish Colonial Christ Nino Santo with Glass Eyes
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Late 19th century carved baby Jesus Santos with glass eyes and custom display stand. Handmade with carved wood and gesso. Glass inset eyes. Left and r...
Category

19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Gesso, Wood

Organic Rain Stick with Sculptural Form, 20th Century
Located in Edogawa-ku Tokyo, JP
A sculptural and organically textured rain stick, likely carved from dried cholla cactus wood. The porous, lattice-like structure of the cactus gives this piece a dramatic natural pr...
Category

Early 20th Century South American Folk Art

Materials

Wood

Small Pre-Columbian Figurine – Ritual Stone Amulet
Located in Madrid, ES
An expressive and finely carved miniature Pre-Columbian figurine, measuring just 4 cm in height, yet rich in symbolic character and presence. Crafted from stone, the figure depicts a...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Stone

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

Pre-Columbian ceramics vessel– Tiahuanaco Culture
Located in Madrid, ES
Pre-Columbian Ceremonial Vessel with Avian Motif, 24x17x20 cm A captivating Pre-Columbian ceramic vessel featuring a pronounced avian head protuberance, likely symbolizing a bird of...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American 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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Reed

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Silver

Pre-Columbian ceramics pot – 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: 9 x 14 cm in diam...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

Brazilian Wai Wai Tribal Cassava Graters Circa 1945
Located in Dallas, TX
Brazilian Wei Wei Casava Graters Two graters constructed of wood and sharpened rock used by the Wai Wai Indigenous tribe of Northern Brazil to process raw Cas...
Category

1940s Folk Art Vintage South American Folk Art

Materials

Stone

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

15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic, Terracotta

Peru Pre-Inca 1270 AD Chimor Pre Columbian Double Face Vessel In Earthware
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Earthenware, Pottery

Pre-Columbian ceramics cup– Tiahuanaco Culture
Located in Madrid, ES
"Pre-Columbian Ceramics – Tiahuanaco Culture" Material: ceramics Origin: Southern Sierra of Peru, Lake Titicaca Plateau Period: Boom Age (1 AD – 800 AD) Dimensions: 24x20x17cm Condit...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

Pre-Columbian ceramics cup– Tiahuanaco Culture
Located in Madrid, ES
"Pre-Columbian Ceramics – Tiahuanaco Culture" Material: ceramics Origin: Southern Sierra of Peru, Lake Titicaca Plateau Period: Boom Age (1 AD – 800 AD) Dimensions: 12 x 11 cm diamet...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

Pre-Columbian ceramics can– 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: 12 x 09 cm in dia...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

Pre-Columbian Funerary Gold Mask with Royal Turquoise Beads in its Eyes
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A high karat heavy sheet gold human face mask with large almond-shaped eyes and recessed pierced pupils. Multiple small perforations along the upper and lower edges for attachment. L...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Gold

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

Folk Art Sculpture of the Head of a Seal, South America, 1930´s
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Folk Art sculpture of the head of a seal. South America 1930´s. The head is mounted over a brass base, as a way to exhibit it. The head has several crack as you can see on the pictur...
Category

Mid-20th Century Folk Art South American Folk Art

Materials

Bronze

Chancay Large Standing Female Cuchimilco
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Large standing female figure with raised arms. Relief facial features, with red-orange and chocolate brown painted decoration, on a cream slip ground. Crossed straps on her chest, an...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

Pre-Columbian ceramics cup– Tiahuanaco Culture
Located in Madrid, ES
"Pre-Columbian Ceramics – Tiahuanaco Culture" Material: ceramics Origin: Southern Sierra of Peru, Lake Titicaca Plateau Period: Boom Age (1 AD – 800 AD) Dimensions: 11 x 10 cm diamet...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Ceramic

White Natural Cow Hide Rug Argentina
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Superb quality natural white cowhide. Argentinian cowhide rugs are the world’s finest, distinguished by suppleness and quality. This hide has been hand-selected and meets high stan...
Category

Late 20th Century Folk Art South American Folk Art

Materials

Leather

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Clay

Ecuadorian Carved Skull Shaped Whistle
Located in London, GB
This unique and amazing Ecuadorian primitive piece is a whistle carved in a skull form, and dates to the formative stage from the woodland period. It measures 2 in – 5 cm wide, 2 ½ i...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Clay

Set of Unknown Miniature Terracotta Heads
Located in Leuven , BE
This small head of a ceramic figure with a bird headdress is probably Pre-Columbian. It seems to originate from the territory of present-day Mexico. Fur...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Terracotta

Vintage Colombian Hand Made Clay Water Jug / Container
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exceptional large vintage Colombian hand made clay water container / jug. Displays a fantastic native influenced design around the top.  
Category

Early 20th Century Tribal South American Folk Art

Materials

Clay

A set of 4 Wooden Spatels
Located in Schellebelle, BE
Set of 4 Spatula from the XINGU,an Indian Tribe in Brasil, these wooden objects were used for cooking, from the collection of Gunther Hartmann (1924-2012), a German Ethnologist, very...
Category

1970s Vintage South American Folk Art

Materials

Fruitwood

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Stone

Small Ecuadorian Moulded Clay Figure on Stand
Located in London, GB
This rare and wonderful example of a formative stage figure from the woodland period is attached to a small wire and wood stand, and is in extraordinarily very good condition for its...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Clay

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

19th Century South American Colonial Silver and Leather Belt – Framed
Located in Madrid, ES
"19th Century South American Colonial Silver and Leather Belt – Framed (Bolivia)" Origin: Bolivia Date: 19th Century Materials: Hand-worked leather, embossed and cast silver mounts D...
Category

19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Silver

Composition Maquette for a Fountain
Located in Round Top, TX
Composition maquette for a fountain. Putti/angel riding a mythical sea creature. This maquette was used to model the bronze castings for a fountain.
Category

1910s Vintage South American Folk Art

Materials

Plaster

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

Late 18th Century Lady Saint with Crown Oil Painting on Board, Framed
Located in Dallas, TX
Circa 1780 Virgin of the Scapular, Anon Venezuelan School, a fabulous painting in the original carved wood gilded frame. Something was originally in the small square holes on either ...
Category

1780s Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Paint

Mirror from the Belen Garden Opera House
Located in Round Top, TX
Cast iron, tile, and mirror sign panel from the Belen Garden Opera House.
Category

1930s Vintage South American Folk Art

Materials

Iron

Masterpiece Complete Chimu Shirt with Feathered Motif
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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.
Category

15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American 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 South American 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...
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15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

Amazonian Feather Storage Basket
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Feather storage basket Rikbaktsa Tribe, Jurene River, Mato Grosso, Brazil 1990 Plaited fiber, wood, feathers, twined natural fiber, and cotton. 5 inche...
Category

Late 20th Century Native American South American Folk Art

Materials

Other

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Paint

Chancay Large Standing Female Cuchimilco
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Cream slip pottery, classical type large standing female figure with arms raised. Dark chocolate painted details, geometric decorated headband. Scattered mineral deposits on the surface. Repaired from approximately twenty original pieces with restoration over the break lines. Provenance: Private Danish...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

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 South American Folk Art

Materials

Textile

Chancay Large Standing Female Figure
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Cream slip pottery, large standing female figure with arms raised. Nicely painted red and chocolate-brown face, with a finely detail geometric headband. Scattered mineral deposits on...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Folk Art

Materials

Pottery

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