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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Place of Origin: South American
Pyrite with rock crystal on metal base
Located in BAARN, UT
Pyrite (FeS2, iron (II) disulfide) is the most abundant sulfide mineral in the world. It is found literally everywhere, in igneous rocks, metamorphic rocks and in sedimentary rocks.
It usually forms cubic crystals, with each crystal having six planes and razor-sharp corners and has a somewhat pale, coppery-yellow metallic luster.
The ancient Greeks used pyrite to make fire. If you hit a piece of pyrite with a hard object, sparks will fly. Hence the name, πυρίτης (pyritēs) which means "for fire".
For this reason the mineral was also popular for a while in the 16th and 17th centuries. Placing a piece of pyrite against a round file gave you just enough spark to fire a pistol of that era.
Although pyrite is still primarily mined to make sulfuric acid, there have been more applications lately. For example, pyrite is found in Lithium batteries and the mineral is also increasingly used in solar panels.
In the 1840'smMany of the inexperienced fortune hunters...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Rock Crystal, Pyrite
Magnificent 18th Century South American Colonial Escaño Settee
Located in Rio De Janeiro, BR
Magnificent 18th Century South American Colonial Escaño Settee in light wood
Backrest formed by four "guitar" sections, cut out, with its necks decorated by volutes centralizing car...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Chestnut
Large electric purple amethyst
Located in London, GB
The electric intensity of this piece’s colouration makes it both stunning and unique. The sparkling colour and natural wave-like form makes for a hypnotic sculpture evoking a sense o...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Soledade Meteorite Slice // 389 Grams
Located in New York, NY
This hefty approximately over 4.5 billion year old Soledade iron meteorite slice features a prominent, unique iron nickel etching. This octahedrite was discovered in 1986 as a 68 kg ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Other, Iron, Nickel
Unusual triangular pyrite
Located in London, GB
An incredible, triangular formation of Peruvian Pyrite. This one-of-a-kind specimen contains a medley of different sized golden triangles with fantastic lustre. This piece was legall...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Pyrite
Peruvian Cuzco Colonial Painting St Michael Oil on Canvas 19th C
Located in London, GB
A fine 19th century full length portrait of St Michael standing with his sword raised.
South American Cuzco school 19th century and earlier.
Unsigned
Oil on canvas, 56 by 78cms. Fram...
Category
Mid-18th Century Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Paint
Oval amethyst geode
Located in London, GB
A gorgeous small oval amethyst geode with an eye-shaped aesthetic
opening revealing the high quality amethyst interior, creating a wonderful
contrast wit...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Smoky Quartz Sphere Mineral Specimen – Minas Gerais, Brazil
Located in Edison, NJ
Quartz spheres are cut and polished pieces of quartz that have held cultural significance since (at least) the 1st century when they were first recorded by Pliny the Elder. They were...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Quartz
Peru Pre-Inca 900 / 1470 AD Chimu Pre Columbian Vessel In Earthenware Pottery
Located in Miami, FL
A pre-Inca Chimu culture, pre Columbian vase in earth ware.
This beautiful little vessel vase, was created in the northern Peruvian region by the Chimu culture between the 900 / 1...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
End-Cut from the Imilac Meteorite
Located in London, GB
Imilac Meteorite End-Cut
circa 4.5 Billion y/o
Measures: 10 x 13 x 1 cm
“This interior section of the Imilac pallasite shows a large range of olivine grain sizes there are coarse grains, grain clusters and fine-grained, crushed olivine debris. All of the olivine grains are surrounded by a matrix of metallic iron-nickel derived from the top of a molten core of a differentiated asteroid”.
Dr Alan E. Rubin, PhD Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Iron, Nickel
Wooden sculpture Santos cage doll, Colonial school, Spanish America, 18th c.
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Handcarved polychrome wooden sculpture with glass eyes, Santos cage doll, capipota, dressing Saint
Colonial school, possibly school of Quito Ecuador, ...
Category
18th Century Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Glass, Wood
17th Century Spanish Colonial Peruvian Painting
Located in Middleburg, VA
17th century Spanish Colonial Peruvian painting. Cusco school, oil on wooden panel depicting “Saint George and the Dragon” with intricate 19th Century car...
Category
17th Century Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint
18th Century Hispoaméric Oil on Canvas of a Madonna 'Cusco, Peru'
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A beautiful Hispanoaméric oil on canvas painting of a Madonna, painted in the 18th century Cusco, Peru. During the almost 3 centuries (from 1542 to 1824) the Spanish had a colony in ...
Category
18th Century Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Rhodochrosite Stalactites From Argentina
Located in New York, NY
These unique rhodochrosite stalactites from Argentina are a rare find. Formed from precipitation off of manganese-rich rocks inside the tunnels of Argentinian silver...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Small intense vivianite on matrix
Located in London, GB
Intense vivianite crystals on an earthy matrix. The vivianite crystals are water clear from edge and pearlescent on the cleaved surface. A wonderful, sculptural arrangement, evocativ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal
Two Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragment Chancay Culture Peru
Located in Atlanta, GA
Two framed pre-Columbian textile fragments from Chancay culture (1000AD-1470AD) in nowadays Peru. Both panels are of a similar red background and possibly wove...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Wood, Textile
Brown quartz stalactites with fiery interior
Located in London, GB
Several brownish quartz stalactites grace this small formation, the frontal
one cut longitudinally to reveal a fiery interior.
This piece was legally and ethically sourced directly ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Peruvian Antique Earthenware / 9th to 10th Century / Human Mask / Wari Culture
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a rare item owned by a Japanese collector.
This is believed to have been made around the 9th or 10th century in Peru.
In the Andean civilizatio...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Other Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Amethyst shell-like geode
Located in London, GB
Beautiful section of an amethyst geode, unusually thin in cross section and resembling a shell with gorgeous deep purple amethyst lining.
Origin : Artigas, Uruguay
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
White quartz with green & watermelon tourmaline
Located in London, GB
An unusual sculptural arrangement of two clear quartz crystals, punctuated and adorned on all sides with dark green tourmaline, watermelon colour in cross section.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Quartz, Tourmaline
Framed Large Nazca Textile Panel with Geometrical Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large woven textile panel from Nazca culture on the south coast of nowadays Peru circa 600 to 800AD. The panel with short fringes on the end used to be half of a sleeveless tunic (similar to poncho) in which two similar pieces were joined together. Professionally mounted and conversed on a linen-backed wood frame and presented in an acrylic shadow box. The textile was finely woven from a camelid fiber dyed with natural pigments. The work strikes the viewer immediately with its unexpected modernity. The tri-colored geometrical blocks created a zigzagged step design that is visually minimal but bold at the same time. Its repetition evokes a lyrical visual rhythm that is unparallel in the ancient textile art and could easily mistake it as an abstract art from the 20th century. The zigzag step design was one of the unusual abstract motifs used by the pre-Columbian weavers from Nazca, who created some of the most mysterious and soul-stirring work with a minimalism aesthetic that was rarely seen in the ancient world. Considering that the artists were completely isolated without the influences of other cultures, their intrinsic creativity and artistic vision are even more impressive.
Reference: James W. Reid, The Lee M...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Textile, Acrylic
Large columnar agate and amethyst formation
Located in London, GB
Striking large vertical presentation displaying vibrant purple amethyst bordered by a thick agate layer. One of a group of four impressive specimens. Pieces such as this are hard t...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Mounted Chancay Textile, 1300-1500 AD
Located in Chicago, IL
Immerse yourself in the artistry of the Chancay civilization with this extraordinary 12th-14th century handwoven and knotted textile. Echoing the mastery of a culture known for its i...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Tribal Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Wool
Spanish Colonial Cuzco Painting of Archangel Michael
Located in Pasadena, CA
This is a very good Spanish Colonial, Cuzco School (Cuzqueno) painting of the Archangel Michael. The painting appears to have little or no restorations and, as such, is in remarkable condition. We have chosen to leave that painting as found as the patina highlights the depth and character of the painting. We have listed separately two complementary larger paintings of the Virgin Mary and the Archangel Michael acquired from the same estate.
The Cuzco school is a Peruvian Spanish Colonial religious artistic tradition in which Incan spirituality was incorporated into Catholic iconography. These Peruvian paintings incorporate artistic forms that distinguish Cuzqueno paintings from other Spanish Colonial artistic traditions. The Jesuit order, arriving in the mid-16th century, was the principal Catholic order whose mission it was to convert the Inca to Christianity and introduce Christian iconography and European type painting techniques to the Inca capital of Cuzco.
Cuzco School paintings...
Category
Mid-18th Century Spanish Colonial Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Golden Rutilated Quartz Sphere Mineral Specimen, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Located in Edison, NJ
Rutilated Quartz is a unique gemstone renowned for its captivating beauty and intriguing composition. It comprises two different mineral species, rutile and quartz. Rutile is a titan...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Quartz, Multi-gemstone
Framed Large Nazca Wari Textile Panel with Geometrical Design
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Nazca-Wari woven textile panel known as Llika or Awayo (shawl) from Ica Valley on the south coast of nowadays Peru. Professionally mounted and conversed on a linen-backed wood frame and presented in an acrylic shadow box. Shawls with this step design were identified as made from the period of 700 to 1100 AD during the transitional period when Nazca went under the expanded rule of the Wari empire. The textile was finely woven from a camelid fiber dyed with natural pigments. The work strikes the viewer immediately with its unexpected modernity. The simple, bold and repetitive geometry with the scintillating color blocks created a lyrical visual rhythm and could easily mistake it as an abstract art from the 20th century. The step design was one of the unusual abstract motifs used by the pre-Columbian weavers from Nazca, who created some of the most mysterious and soul-stirring work with a minimalism aesthetic that was rarely seen in any other ancient textile art. Considering that the artists were completely isolated without the influences of other cultures, their intrinsic creativity and artistic vision are even more impressive.
Provenance: From the collection of Lee M...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Textile
Flame-Shaped Calcite on Amethyst Crystal Mineral Specimen- Artigas, Uruguay
Located in Edison, NJ
This is a stunning specimen featuring two commonly known species (amethyst and calcite) that have culminated in a wholly unbelievable and unusual composition. Deep, grape-jelly purpl...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Amethyst
Large columnar agate and amethyst formation
Located in London, GB
Striking large vertical presentation displaying vibrant purple amethyst bordered by a thick agate layer. One of a group of four impressive specimens. Pieces such as this are hard t...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Large columnar agate and amethyst formation
Located in London, GB
Striking large vertical presentation displaying vibrant purple amethyst bordered by a thick agate layer. One of a group of four impressive specimens. Pieces such as this are hard t...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Large columnar agate and amethyst formation
Located in London, GB
Striking large vertical presentation displaying vibrant purple amethyst bordered by a thick agate layer. One of a group of four impressive specimens. Pieces such as this are hard t...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Small towering grey druze stalactite formation
Located in London, GB
This small towering stalactite formation is covered in grey druze with tanbrown
accents and transparent quartz overlaying green celadonite.
This piece was legally and ethically sour...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Rough geode section with contrasting amethyst
Located in London, GB
Like a treasure chest, this striking geode section shows the incredible
contrast between the rough volcanic stone (basalt) in which the geodes
are found, and the radiant amethystine ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Peru Inca 1200 AD Lambayeque Pre-Columbian Blackware Ceramic Vase with Warrior
Located in Miami, FL
An Inca Peru pre-hispanic black ware huaco vessel, from Lambayeque.
Beautiful piece, created under the Inca culture between the 750 / 1375 AD at the Sican...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Earthenware
Pre-Columbian Black Figural Stirrup Vessel Moche Culture
Located in Atlanta, GA
A small black ceramic figural stirrup vessel from Moche culture circa. 100-500 AD, located in nowadays Northern Coast of Peru. The hollow pot with the stirrup handle was sensitively molded and the surface burnished. The seated figure has his arms folded in front of his chest. He has prominently protruding ears and an expressive face.
Provenance Available to the buyer: From an American collection.
For a black burnished stirrup bottle, see item 1976.287.8, 64.228.35 in the collection of Metropolitan Musuem of Art, NYC.
Many black portrait stirrup bottles are in the collection of Larco Musuem, Lima...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Framed Pre-Colombian Peruvian Textile, 900 to 1470 AD
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Peruvian Pre-Colombian (Chancay) textile panel of camelid wool embroidered on cotton with three birds, each holding a lizard in its beak.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Spanish Colonial 18th Century Cuzco School Oil on Canvas
Located in Bradenton, FL
A traditional and characteristic 18th century, Spanish colonial oil on canvas painting
depicting the Virgin Mary holding a book with St. Anne an...
Category
18th Century Spanish Colonial Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Iron meteorite
Located in BAARN, UT
7kg iron meteorite from the famous locality Argentina, camp del cielo.
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Iron
Beautifully shaped black earthenware/16th-17th century/Wabi-sabi vase
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
I would like to introduce you to a very beautiful form of time.
This is probably an earthenware vessel made in Peru, South America.
In Peru, there are many earthenware with many round curves, and many of them have polished and smooth surfaces.
There are many objects with complicated shapes, but there are also objects with simple and practical shapes like this excavated.
This one is black, but I think it originally had pale pink skin.
However, it has turned black due to soot and charring.
There is surface deterioration, but the condition is good and there are no major scratches.
Please use it carefully because it is light and thin.
It is a very beautiful curved vase.
A Japanese collector used this excavated vase...
Category
17th Century Other Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Pottery
17th Century Antique Flemish Tapestry 8'5" X 4'7"
Located in Los Angeles, US
A wall hanging tapestry, simply put, is a textile specifically designed and woven to portray an artistic scene with the intent of hanging it on a wall. Antique tapestries, those that...
Category
17th Century Other Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Small amethyst cluster
Located in London, GB
A small amethyst cluster with interesting sprinkling of creamy calcite crystals.
Polished at the edges.
This piece was legally and ethically sourced directly in the prestigious mine...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Finger-like quartz after anhydrite pseudomotph
Located in London, GB
Another formation of quartz pseudomorphs after anhydrite. The beautiful
medley of quartz crystals formed over anhydrite crystals, which subsequently
dissolved, leaving tan coloured q...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Quartz
Pink amethyst "butterfly" slice on metal base
Located in BAARN, UT
Amethyst is a quartz containing traces of manganese oxide are responsible for the violet color. Amethyst is usually found in cavities of volcanic rock and is also present in ore corr...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Amethyst
Pink Heart Rhodochrosite Slice Mineral Specimen, Capillitas Mine, Argentina
Located in Edison, NJ
Rhodochrosite stalactites are found exclusively in the Mina Capillitas (“little chapels”) mineral deposit of Argentina. Within each nondescript stalactite is a core with bands of blu...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Multi-gemstone
Pink amethyst on metal base
Located in BAARN, UT
Amethyst is a quartz containing traces of manganese oxide are responsible for the violet color. Amethyst is usually found in cavities of volcanic rock and is also present in ore corr...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Amethyst
Painting of the Virgin Mary Holding Baby Christ (Cusco, Peru)
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
A fine 18th century painting depicting the Virgin Mary holding baby Christ above four saints, painted in the artistic centers of Cuzco and the Altiplano re...
Category
18th Century Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Green organic formation
Located in London, GB
A wonderful display piece showing a prominent thick stalactite at the centre,
covered with glass-like green-brown druzy quartz. The lower border
polished to reveal a wonderful sea gr...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Small Lilac Amethyst Geode with Calcite
Located in London, GB
This small geode of lilac coloured amethystine quartz with several rhombohedral
calcites at the front and red druze / blackish goethite accents.
This piece was legally and ethica...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
“Cup of Flowers” Amethyst and Calcite
Located in London, GB
Resembling a cup of flowers, this formation consists of several circular
calcite arrangements sat on a bed of deep purple amethyst. There is a
second generation growth of amethysti...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Quartz, Agate, Amethyst
Small floral formation
Located in London, GB
A small formation consisting of a white quartz stalactite on a bed on lilac
amethyst.
This piece was legally and ethically sourced directly in the prestigious mines of Uruguay, Sout...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
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 Furniture
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
Rare boat shaped quartz after anhydrite pseudomorph
Located in London, GB
A beautiful formation of unusual quartz pseudomorphs after anhydrite.
The quartz crystals have formed over anhydrite crystals, which subsequently
dissolved, leaving tan coloured quar...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Small cut agatised geode with cotton candy interior
Located in London, GB
A beautiful small geode with thick agate borders and interior window revealing
a gorgeous pink druzy coating over nascent stalactites, resembling
cotto...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Agate, Amethyst, Quartz
Rhodonite, Morro da Mina Mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Located in New York, NY
Rhodonite
Morro da Mina Mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete,
Minas Gerais, Brazil
5.8 cm tall x 7.3 cm wide
The most exceptional rhodonites in the world are now found in Brazil. The...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Other
Peru Pre Inca 100-700 Ad Moche Pre Columbian Personified Vessel in Earthenware
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Pre-Columbian Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Earthenware, Pottery
Pair of Colonial Silver Stirrups
Located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, MX
Beautiful pair of stirrups from colonial South America of the country of Perú, handmade from metalworker, silver material.
Category
17th Century American Colonial Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Silver
Purple Amethyst & Calcite Mineral Specimen, Artigas, Uruguay
Located in Edison, NJ
Artigas is known for amethysts of the darkest and richest hues of purple. Lustrous and richly-toned, they are instantly recognizable and not uncommon in the mineral market. What sets...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Amethyst, Multi-gemstone, Quartz, Rock Crystal
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 South American Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Chartreuse Brazilianite Mineral Specimen – Linópolis, Brazil
Located in Edison, NJ
Brazilianite is a phosphate mineral loved for its brilliant color and gemlike crystals. Hues range from light-yellow to electric yellow-green, making it a favorite among specimen col...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Antique South American Furniture
Materials
Rock Crystal
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