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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Framed Collection of Twenty-One Native American Arrowheads
Located in Chicago, IL
An exceptional set of twenty-one stone arrowheads, discovered in Wisconsin's Waukesha County and framed within a 19th-century faux grain painted shadowbox, these arrowheads not only ...
Category
American Native American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Stone
Ancient Indus Valley cup bearer Fertility figurine C (2800-2600 BC).
Located in London, GB
Ancient Indus Valley cup bearer Fertility figurine Circa (2800-2600 BC).
A rare female pottery cup bearer figurine in terracotta with pointed facial features and applied diamond sha...
Category
Indian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Terracotta
Pre Columbian Costa Rican Jadeite Axe God pendant
Located in London, GB
A Pre Columbian Jadeite Axe God pendant from the Guanacaste/Nicoya region of Costa Rica Circa. 800 to 1200 AD.
The axe god pendant of highly stylized Human form drilled through the ...
Category
Costa Rican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Pottery
A Very Rare Long Maori Paddle ‘Hoe’
Located in London, GB
A Very Rare Long Maori Paddle ‘Hoe’
Superb colour and patina
Wood
Maori / New Zealand
Late 18th / early 19th Century
Size: 217cm long - 85½ ins long
Provenance:
W.D. Webster, B...
Category
New Zealand Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Pre Columbian Maya Polychrome Pottery Bowl circa A.D. 550-950
Located in London, GB
Maya Poly-chrome painted pottery bowl
Guatemala/ central America late Classic period, circa A.D. 550-950,
A bowl of rounded bottom circular form, painted with a frieze of monkey...
Category
Guatemalan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre Columbian Colima Dog Ancient West Mexico Latin American Antiques Art
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Colima Dog Ancient West Mexico
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima Ancient Mexico C 200 BC –400 AD
A attractive seated Colima dog v...
Category
Mexican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre Columbian Narino Carchi Coquero Coca chewer Figure Columbia
Located in London, GB
A hand modelled statue of a male coca chewer figure , known as a Coquero, wearing a sash sitting upon a bench, the coca quid in his right cheek, with black negative resist design
Pr...
Category
Colombian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre Columbian Large Inca Early Colonial period Wood Kero South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Large Pre Columbian INCA / Early Colonial period Wood Kero
A superb Large Inca Kero cup profusely carved in the mosaic style with a image of the Inca or...
Category
Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Two Pre Inuit Thule Culture Bone Tool Handles
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Two carved bone tool Handles from the Pre-Inuit Thule Culture in all original condition. Probable wood working tools, the handles once held Stone or, more rarely, Iron blades. The la...
Category
Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Bone
18th Century Bronze Palanquin Leopard Finials
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
18th Century Bronze Palanquin Leopard Finials
An intriguing pair of 18th-century Bronze Palanquin Leopard Finials, exquisite artifacts that represent the opulence and cultural herit...
Category
Indian Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Bronze
A Rare and Historically Important Artefact Recovered from HMS Adventure in 1775
Located in London, GB
A Rare and Historically Important Artefact Recovered from HMS Adventure in 1775 after Captain James Cook’s Second Voyage to the Pacific
A ‘coconut husker’ made by a ship’s carpenter aboard HMS Adventure in the style and design of a Native Islander’s ethnographical ‘coconut husker’
An engraved and inscribed copper plaque:
A memento from
The Sandwich Islands
Coconut Husker used aboard
HMS Adventure
and recovered from
The Royal Dockyard Deptford
1775
Oak, iron, brass, copper, handmade iron screws
Fine rich colour and patina
England / Sandwich Island
18th Century
SIZE: 15.5cm high, 49.5cm long, 20cm wide (max) - 6¹⁄₈ ins high, 19½ ins long, 7⁷⁄₈ ins wide (max)
Provenance:
Found in a Scottish attic after centuries of lying hidden in a crate
Ex Private Scottish collection
Captain James Cook’s second voyage aboard the Resolution and accompanied by HMS Adventure set sail in July 1772. The discovery of the southern eight islands of the Sandwich Islands group was in 1775. The given name was chosen in honour of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty.
The copper plaque and inscription however should not be read as The Sandwich Islands ‘Owhyhee’ (The Hawaiian Islands) which were later discovered on January 18th, 1778, on Captain Cook’s third voyage. Rather the inscription refers to ‘South Sandwich Islands’ lying to the south east of South Georgia and only renamed later with the word ‘South’ to distinguish them from the ‘Sandwich Islands’ now known as the Hawaiian Islands.
Not withstanding during Cook’s second voyage he visited Easter Island, Tahiti, Society Islands, Niue, Tonga, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Norfolk Islands, Palmerston Island and South Georgia. The crew onboard having been exposed to various types of ‘coconut huskers’ adapted those designs into the example we now see, having been rescued from HMS Adventure in 1775. A rare example of 18th century cross...
Category
American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Brass, Copper, Iron
A Rare and Finely Carved Egyptian Wooden Headrest
Located in London, GB
A Rare and Finely Carved Egyptian Wooden Headrest with a Carved Head to both Sides Representing the God ‘Bes’ (Protector of the Homestead) above Carved...
Category
Egyptian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Pre Columbian Totonac stone bust Figure Veracruz Mexico Circa 600-900 A.D
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian Totonac stone bust Figure
Veracruz Mexico Circa 600-900 A.D
A Rare basalt bust of a Totonac deity with pouted lips and geometric headdress, caved in basalt with dar...
Category
Mexican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Stone
Pre Columbian Jalisco Figure West Mexico Circa B.C. 100-300 A.D
Located in London, GB
A Pre Columbian Jalisco seated figure
Jalisco West Mexico circa B.C. 100-300 A.D,
A Male pottery figure with red slip with elongated head and linear delineated hair wearing ear and nose ornaments, the slim body finely modelled with hands on chest seated...
Category
Mexican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre Inuit/ Eskimo Thule Culture Artifacts
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A curated collection of Pre Inuit Thule Culture (1,200-1,600 A.D.) Artifacts housed in a Museum Style Frame. The Collection includes various implements used in daily life by the wide...
Category
North American Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Stone
Large Vintage decorative Mexican terracotta bust Montezuma
Located in London, GB
Large Vintage decorative Mexican terracotta bust Montezuma
A Vintage pottery bust of Montezuma with headdress and ear ornaments in red/brown terracotta with polychrome pigment decoration. Oaxaca Mexico Circa early 20th century.
Height 11 inches 28 cm
Condition Good with age discoloration minor wear and surface paint...
Category
Mexican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre Columbian Jalisco Figure West Mexico Circa B.C. 100-300 A.D
Located in London, GB
A Pre Columbian Jalisco warrior figure
Jalisco West Mexico circa B.C. 100-300 A.D,
A stunning large pottery warrior figure wearing a banded headdress with disco arm ornaments , ...
Category
Mexican Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Pottery
Antique Greek Pair of Silk/Metal Thread Embroideries, 18th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Greek Pair Silk/Metal Thread Embroideries, 18th Century
Additional Information:
Dimensions: 0'11" L x 0'6" W
Origin: Greece
Period: 18th Cen...
Category
Greek Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Metal
Mortar carved in a probably very old trunk
Located in grand Lancy, CH
Mortar carved in a probably very old trunk
Category
African Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Large Teak Burl Wood Bowl, East Java or Madura, 18th/19th Century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A beautiful bowl, originally a musical frame drum called Terbang, which was used in ecstatic devotional music. The drum was hewn from a single piece of teak...
Category
Javanese Organic Modern Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Teak
Old Cedar Wood Sweet Refined Egyptian Mummy Mask
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Elegant old cedar wood sweet Egyptian mummy mask, 8 3/4 Inches high. Soft weathered surface and great expression. Areas of chips erosion and little bits mis...
Category
Egyptian Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Organic Material, Wood
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
Peruvian Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Pottery
Roman iridescent green glass bottle antiquities ancient world antiques
Located in London, GB
Roman iridescent green glass bottle antiquities ancient world.
A fine attractive ancient Roman green glass bottle with round flattened angular ...
Category
Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Blown Glass
Vintage Carved Suriname Stool Tribal Interior Design Home Decoration
Located in London, GB
A fine vintage carved Suriname stool with geometric carved decoration, Tribal South Latin American Antiques
Suriname South America
Measures: 18 cm hei...
Category
Surinamer Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Antique Indian Hindu / Jain Brass Votive Head Devotee Asian Art
Located in London, GB
Antique Indian Hindu or Jain brass votive head
Period :19th century
Measure: Height 12 cm
Presented with display base.
Category
Tibetan Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Pre Columbian Inca Early Colonial period Wood Kero South American Antiques
Located in London, GB
Pre Columbian INCA / Early Colonial period Wood Kero
A superb Inca Kero carved and painted in a mosaic style with Avian floral and animal designs
Heig...
Category
Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
African Tribal Art Antique Ancient Koma Terracotta Ghana Abstract Sculpture
Located in London, GB
A striking abstract modelled terracotta figural torso the expressive visage gesticulating with open singing mouth and beard and ridged coiffure carrying a object on his back, in heavy solid terracotta with red pigment A splendid and rare example of ancient abstract art.
Size: H 8.5 " W 5 W 2.5 . 22x12 x6cm on included high quality custom metal stand. overall height including stand 13.5 " , 35 cm
West Africa, Ghana, Koma Land culture, 13th to 16th century CE
Ex Anthony Powell...
Category
Ghanaian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Terracotta
Pre Columbian Rare Lambayeque Wood Figure
Located in London, GB
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...
Category
Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Antique 17th-18th Century Wood Italian Seated Saint Figure Fragment with Beard
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique 17th-18th century Italian carved wood seated saint figure fragment with beard. Possibly earlier. Remains of paint or pigments.
Arms and one leg missing, old damage to nose and other areas. Mounted on vintage base...
Category
Italian Medieval Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
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
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Ceramic
Ancient Japanese Haniwa Terracotta Figure Kofun C 6th century Asian Art Antiques
Located in London, GB
A rare Haniwa figural head
Kofun period (3rd-7th century), circa 500-600.
The hand-built yellow earthenware hollow figure of typical form, the face...
Category
Japanese Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Pottery
Pre-Columbian Style Nayarit Indian Polychromed Effigy Alligator Pipes
Located in Lomita, CA
This grouping of alligator-like or crocodile effigy antique pipes is both beautiful and intriguing. The wear on the backs and underside of the polychrome...
Category
Mexican Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Clay, Terracotta
Large Spanish Colonial Post Inca South American Kero Cup Peru
Located in London, GB
Large Spanish Colonial post Inca Kero Peru
A large hard wood Kero cup carved in flaring form with incised geometric design with small silver inlays.
Period...
Category
Peruvian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Large Polychrome Fruitera Pedestal Dish, Cocle Culture, Panama
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Large Polychrome Fruitera Pedestal Dish, Cocle Culture, Panama
A large pedestal dish with two hammerhead shark-like sea creatures in plum, ochre and b...
Category
Panamanian Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Terracotta
18th Century Polynesian Hardwood Ula Tavatava or Throwing War Club from Fiji
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Polynesian hardwood Ula tavatava or throwing war club
Fiji, probably 18th century
All-over decorated in incised pattern, the bulbous top seems to have a stone grown into it.
H. 42 cm
Including museum-quality powder-coated stand.
Provenance:
Private collection, France
Polynesian culture is traditionally a culture of power and prestige, and there was a fine line between battle and ceremony. Warrior people par excellence, the Fijians had at their disposal a large panoply of weapons, each for a specific use.
The elegant Gata are called gun-sticks by Europeans due to the recognizable form. However, they are designed after a snake, gata in Fijian language. The Ula throwing clubs...
Category
Fijian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Hardwood
Large Brazilian or Guyana Amazon Indigenous Macana War Club, 18th or Earlier
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A splendid and rare Amazon indigenous wamara wood Macana war-club
Southern-Guyana or Northern Brazil, Wapitxana group of the Aruak peoples, 18th century, possibly earlier
Measure: H. 43 cm
The deep patina of the club present, and the residue on the part where it was held, attest to its great age.
This unusually large Macana is decorated with several incised whitened anthropomorphic and human figures, a decoration only found on one other documented club in the British Museum, which is illustrated in: Hjalmar Stolpe, Amazon Indian...
Category
Brazilian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Hardwood
18th Century Polynesian Ironwood Gata Waka or War Club from Fiji
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Polynesian ironwood Gata waka or war club
Fiji, probably 18th century or earlier
Measures: Height. 97 cm
Including museum-quality powder-coated stand.
Provenance:
Private collection, France
Polynesian culture is traditionally a culture of power and prestige, and there was a fine line between battle and ceremony. Warrior people par excellence, the Fijians had at their disposal a large panoply of weapons, each for a specific use.
The elegant Gata are called gun-sticks by Europeans due to the recognizable form. However, they are designed after a snake, gata in Fijian language. The Ula throwing clubs...
Category
Fijian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Hardwood
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
Brazilian Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Earthenware
Tonga Pakipaki War Club, Polynesia, 18th Century
Located in Delft, NL
A Tonga Pakipaki war club, Polynesia, 18th century
An exceptional ironwood war club originating from Tonga, Polynesia. 18th century and hand carved with complex geometric patterns running the length of the shaft.
4 human and 1 botanical glyphs and a extra carving, see details in picture 2
The Tongan war club...
Category
Polynesian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Ottoman Empire ‘18th Century or Earlier’ Pair of Turkish Bath Clogs with Inlay
Located in Chicago, IL
18th century or earlier, (Ottoman Empire) pair of Turkish bath clogs with mother-of-pearl inlay
these are a beautiful decorative object d' art whic...
Category
Turkish Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Leather, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
African Currency, Thoung Knife
Located in Dallas, TX
Most forms were developed from traditional metal objects that were already in use such as weapons, tools, bracelets and anklets. While some continued to be functional for work or dec...
Category
African Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Metal
Kuba Mask African Bwoom Tribal Congo in Wood, Vibrates Vegetables, Animal Hair
Located in Milano, IT
The African Kuba Bwoom tribal mask is the oldest known mask, the Kuba bwoom mask. The materials used for the realization of the Mask are: Wood, colors and vibrates plants, caures, beads, animal hair. In dance it expresses exuberance and joy. The style is similar to that of the middle Kasai. This mask is a helmet with animal hair, carved with a very wide forehead and hollow cheeks that are announced by motifs or dashes and beads. The mouth of the mask is very pronounced carved in wood and then applied on the mask. To distinguish the forehead in different areas are used black and white beads to draw attention to other aspects of the face such as the nose and chin. The entire edge of the chin is surrounded by beads of various colors. The person wearing the mask cannot look because there are no holes for the eyes present; the mask must create the feeling of being blind. Some masks similar to the bwoom mask include the funny mask, the ram mask and initiation masks such as Nnup.
The real Kuba masks...
Category
Congolese Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Animal Skin, Organic Material, Wood
15th Century Tribal Wood Panel with Mahakala, Tibet
Located in Point Richmond, CA
15th century tribal wood panel with Mahakala, Tibet
A dramatic wood panel from the front of an early Tibetan chest, with all the original mineral ...
Category
Tibetan Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Iron
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
Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wool
Ancient Northwest Coast Stone Club Estimated A.D. to Pre-European Contact
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Ancient Northwest Coast Stone Club estimated A.D. to Pre-European Contact.
This is an exceptional ethnological treasure of great aesthetic quality and rarity. The stone club is ca...
Category
Canadian Archaistic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Slate
Earthenware Bat Pedestal Dish, Coclé Culture, Panama, 600-800 A.D.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Earthenware bat pedestal dish, Coclé Culture, Panama
Earthenware dish on a low pedestal foot; the dish face is painted black, red and purple on a cream ground, each half of the bi...
Category
Panamanian Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Terracotta
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
Peruvian Tribal Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Silver
Early Anatolian Kilim Fragment
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning early Kilim from Central Anatolia distinguished by a rare apricot background, by a spectacular array of early colors including aubergine and by a bottom compartment decorated by stylized carnations (or Mother Goddess fertility figures...
Category
Turkish Kilim Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Wool
Set of Five Blue Glass Earrings, Bang Chiang, South East Asia, 200AD-4000BC
Located in Schellebelle, BE
Set of five blue glass earrings from Ban Chiang culture, South East Asia
Measures: Different heights in stands 14/12/12/11/9 cm.
Category
Thai Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tribal Art
Materials
Glass
Pair of Asian Temple goddess.
Located in Bronx, NY
Pair of Asian Temple goddess.
Items dimensions:
47.13", 6.38", 6.25"
41.13", 7.13", 7.13"
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