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Period: 15th Century and Earlier
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...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragment from Chancay Culture
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique pre-Columbia textile fragment likely from Peru Chancay culture in Central coast that thrived in the late Intermediate period/ late Horizon, A.D. 1200-1550. Abstract geomet...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile, Acrylic

1980s Abstract Painting with Heavy Impasto Textures
Located in Miami, FL
1980s Abstract painting with heavy impasto textures Offered for sale is a 1980s abstract painting on canvas with heavily textured impasto brushwork techniques. The painting inco...
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Modern Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Linen, Wood

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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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Large Leaf Fossil from the Green River Formation
Located in London, GB
A large and beautifully preserved fossilised leaf from the Green River formation, a site which has brought forth some of the best-preserved fossi...
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North American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Other

Ancient Coptic Textile with Classical Figures
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Finely woven of wool and linen, this large, ancient, museum level Coptic textile depicts figures derived from classical antiquity, some playing musical ...
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Egyptian Classical Roman Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Wool, Linen

Two Framed Pre-Columbian Textile and Tools
Located in Atlanta, GA
Two antique textile fragments and two painted textile tools spindle needle framed in a pair matching Lucite shadow boxes. The textiles were li...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Wool, Alpaca, Wood

Pre-Columbian Inca Mantle with 16 Figures, Peru, 1476-1534 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Group of Three Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragments
Located in Atlanta, GA
Three textile fragment framed in Lucite shadow boxes, from pre-Columbian Peru, likely Chancay Culture in the central coastal region circa 14-15th century. With different weaving tech...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Wool, Natural Fiber

Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragment
Located in Atlanta, GA
A nicely framed fragment of antique Pre-Columbian textile that depicts a stylized figure in a geometrical background. Linen backing. The original is l...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Cotton

Pre-Columbian Warrior Banner, Chimu, Peru, circa 1100-1476 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Pre-Columbian ornamental banner with fringes composed of warriors/divinities holding figures in their hands, surrounded by geometric frets. Two-headed birds in alternating colors decorate the top and bottom of the banner. This one-of-a-kind tapestry has preserved its vibrant original colors and fibres. Professionally cleaned. Provenance: Private European Collection Textiles from elite Chimu tombs include elaborate gauzes, embroidery, painted plain weave and tapestry, and three-dimensional fibre sculptures. Among others, shades of yellow and brown, scarlet, white, lavender-blue and olive green were the colors used. Birds and a deity wearing a crescent-like headdress have been the most popular decorative motifs. Many Chimu textiles...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

Two Framed Pre-Columbian Textile Fragments Nazca Culture
Located in Atlanta, GA
Two small fragments of pre-Columbian textiles in shadow box frames. Both have strong geometrical patterns in the style of Nazca culture, located in the southern coast of nowadays Per...
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South American Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Wool

Pre-Columbian Nazca Stepped Textile Poncho, Nazca Peru, 200-400 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Nazca Tunic/Poncho of stepped design and fringe in yellow ocher, burgundy and brown. Perfect condition, museum quality.
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Abstract Geometric Checkerboard Pre-Columbian Early Nazca Textile - 100-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

United Kingdom Ammonite Fossil Plate
Located in London, GB
United Kingdom Ammonite plate.   
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British Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Other

Pre-Columbian Chancay Painted Panel with Two Figures Side by Side
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Chancay painted panel with two figurines side by side. This is a complete panel with two rectangular box-headed personages on a busily packed background of geometric motifs of circle...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Nazca Cross-Patterned Textile, Peru, 300-600 AD, Ex-Sotheby's
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Complete Pre-Columbian Textile panel woven in plain weave with interlocking and alternating squares in bright shades, with elongated stepped diamonds, looped fringe on the short ends...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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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...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Ceremonial Inca Tokapu of Multicolor Geometric Diamond Shapes
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Magnificent Ceremonial Inca Tokapu of Multicolor Geometric Diamond Shapes. Tokapu were textiles worn by the Inca elite consisting of geometric figures enclosed by rectangles or squa...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

Pre-Columbian Chancay Painted Textile - Brown Fishes and Dots On Vertical Bands
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Chancay Painted Textile with Brown Fishes and Dots On Vertical Bands. Even though the piece is incomplete, the powerful design resembles an abstract modern painting by Henry Matisse...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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.
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

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...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Lambayeque Textile Ceremonial Panel
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Impressive pre-columbian Lambayeque textile ceremonial panel. Lambayeque, Peru. Mint condition. Museum piece. Ex. Sotheby’s, New York. The Lambayeque civilization (aka Sicán) flou...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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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...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Chuquibamba Banner, Peru 1000-1400 AD Ex Guillot-Muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Exceptional Banner of Pageantry with Multicolor Tapisserie Squares with 8 Weave Ornaments in Relief. On the inferior part the ornaments float with the wind. (2 are missing) Very good...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

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...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Chimu Painting with 3 Warriors, Ex-Guillot Muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Chimu Painting with 3 Warriors. Part of a larger painting with 3 rectangles representing warriors with the characteristic Chimu Headdress. This one-of-a-kind painting is mounted and ...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

Pre-Columbian Chimu Multicolor Banner with Geometric Designs
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Beautiful and Impressive Fragment of a Multicolor Banner with Ocher, Red and Purple with Geometric Designs with Birds and Mythic Creatures in Horizontal Bands. This piece is accomp...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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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 ...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Published Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Panel with Zoomorphs, Ex-Kate Kemper
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A white gauze, triangular panel decorated with a wide band composed of four zoomorphs with curled tails. Upper and lower border having a geometric pattern with upper triangular portion with zoomorphs. Overall excellent condition. Kate Kemper, of London and Switzerland (1908-2004) was an early collector of Andean art, forming an important collection of ceramics and textiles after...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

Pre-Columbian Nazca Checkerboard Cushma 200-400 AD Ex Guillot-Muñoz
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Impressive Nazca Cushma of checker works design composed of a red and yellow cross over the green background. A true collector's piece. Provenance: From the Collection of Guill...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Textile with 12 Animals, Ex-Kate Kemper
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Large, rectangular section of loosely woven cotton in an open, net pattern weave. Bears three complete selvedges and has 12 square sections, each containing a horned animal with curled tail surrounded by a meandering, geometric border. Excellent condition. Backed on black cotton. Kate Kemper, of London and Switzerland (1908-2004) was an early collector of Andean art, forming an important collection of ceramics and textiles after visiting Peru. Her comprehensive collection was formed in Europe and exhibited in various museums including Ancient Peruvian...
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Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

Pre-Columbian Nazca Unku with Stepped “V” Design, Peru, 200-300 AD
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
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 ...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Pre-Columbian Chancay Gauze Panel with Figures, Ex-Kate Kemper Estate
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
A large, rectangular panel composed of a large diamond pattern grid, each grid contains a stylized human figure with arms raised. A few very minor imperfections, overall excellent condition. Backed and stretched on a brown linen, it has been stabilized and sealed in a very thick and rigid plexiglass. Estate of Miss Kate Kemper, London. Kate Kemper, of London and Switzerland (1908-2004) was an early collector of Andean art, forming an important collection of ceramics and textiles after...
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Cotton

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.
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Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Textile

Fossil Fish Plate, Giant Priscacara. United States. 55 Million Years Old.
Located in London, GB
About Dale Rogers. Since 1986 Dale has been sourcing the most unique fossils and minerals from around the world and through his company Dale Rogers Ammonite...
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American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Other

Original Pre Colombian Copper Tumi Knife
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Ancient pre Colombian surgical copper tumi knife ,processionally mounted on cotton Matt with decorative vintage shadow box . Original cloth encrustation and wrapping patterns visible...
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Peruvian Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Copper

Large Palm Frond Fossil Wall Art, United States. 55 Million Years Old
Located in London, GB
About Dale Rogers Since 1986 Dale has been sourcing the most unique fossils and minerals from around the world and through his company has been supplying leading interior designers ...
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American Antique 15th Century and Earlier Wall Decorations

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Limestone

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