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Unique Historical Pottery

Distinct pottery artifacts including animal-shaped vases and terracotta items, showcasing ancient artistic expressions from different cultures.

Central America, El Salvador, San Salvador, Joya de Ceren (Jewel of Ceren) Museum. Pottery alligator vase artifact. UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Central America, El Salvador, San Salvador, Joya de Ceren (Jewel of Ceren) Museum. Pottery alligator vase artifact. UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Animal-head post carved in wood. Found in the Tomb of the Boat of Oseberg, Norway. 9th century. Viking Ship Museum. Oslo. Norway.Central America, El Salvador, San Salvador, Joya de Ceren (Jewel of Ceren) Museum. Pottery alligator vase artifact. UNESCO World Heritage Site.bronze parades with the head of a warrior with a wolf head headdress, necropolis of Piquia, Arjona, Iberian Museum of Jaén, Andalusia, Spain.Czech Republic, Bohemia, Msecke Zehrovice, Masculine head with curls and necklace, circa 125 B.C., stoneTerracotta vase in the shape of a leather bag ca. 2500-1900 B.C. Cypriot The exuberant shapes and decoration of most Red Polished pottery are quite impractical for domestic purposes and were specifically intended for use as grave goods.. Terracotta vase in the shape of a leather bag 240889Romanization of Hispania. Wine amphora. Clay. 2nd -1st century BC. Cabezo de Alcala, Spain. Iberian Script. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. Spain.Gui Food Container, ( Mid 11th - mid 10th Centuries BC) The Capital Museum, Beijing, ChinaEtruscan Art. The vessel on a tall stand is a mixture of an etruscan hearth of fired clay and a base of metal well known from Middle Eastern banquets. 750-500 BC. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Denmark.zoomorphe Figur Gefäß zoomorphe Figur Gefäß Copyright: xZoonar.com/TOLOxBALAGUERx 22682541altar foot from the 10th century, Laguardia, Vitoria-Gasteiz Museum of Sacred Art, María Inmaculada Cathedral, Álava, Spain.anthropomorphe Figur anthropomorphe Figur Copyright: xZoonar.com/TOLOxBALAGUERx 22682424Bronze statuette of Sobek as a Crocodile, from Egypt. Dated 4th Century BCWater Spout in the Form of a Makara ca. 10th century Indonesia (Java). Water Spout in the Form of a Makara 38280Painted ceramics with plant motifs painted ceramics with plant motifs copyright: xzoonar.com/bartomeuxbalaguerxrotgerx 22556672Ushabti of Senkamanisken. Serpentine. King Senkamanisken, Nuri, Napatan Period (643-623 B.C.).Detail eines Altars mit einer anthropomorphen Figur Detail eines Altars mit einer anthropomorphen Figur Copyright: xZoonar.com/TOLOxBALAGUERx 22682498Temple Model. Culture: Mezcala. Dimensions: H. 4 3/4 x W. 4 1/4 in. (12.1 x 10.8 cm). Date: 200 B.C.-A.D. 500.Stone models in the Mezcala style come largely from the present-day state of Guerrero, in southwest Mexico. A particularly long-lived tradition, these works may have been produced over some one thousand years, from as early as 500 B.C. Little is known about their archaeological contexts, and there are few points of reference with surviving architecture in the region. It is possible that these models emulate buildings with stone columns, such as those from Cuetlajuchitlán; alternatively they could recall above- or below-ground funerary structures, in which case the columns would represent wood supports of a tomb or a funerary pyre. Mezcala models may have served multiple functions over time, in keeping with the Mesoamerican custom of repurposing or recarving stone objects. Oblong models, for example, may have been recarved from celts, ritual tools of great symbolic importance.Grave Pg 755. Gold helmet of a warrior king. Royals Tombs of Ur. Early Dynastic III. 2600 Bc. Iraq. British Museum.FIGURAS EN BARRO COCIDO-ARTE ROMANO. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-COLECCION. CORDOBA. SPAIN.Bronze strainer Roman, 2nd or 3rd century AD From the River Saone (Saone-et-Loire, France)Funerary cone of the Chief Beer Brewer and Chief of the Corrals of Amun, named Abemusekhet. Terracotta. New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.).VASO DE DOS CABEZAS ARTE ROMANO. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-COLECCION. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.Loom and fishing net weights Ceramic and Stone 3rd and 2nd millennium BCPrehistory, Spain, Bronze Age. Basalt idol. From Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca.zoomorphic figure, (crocodile) Chalcolithic, fifth millennium BC, Bulgarian National Archaeological Museum, Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria, Europe.Zapotec terracotta vase from Oaxaca, Mexico. 250-600 ADTurkey, historic region of Paphlagonia, Sinop (aka Sinope). Archaeological Museum of Sinop. 4th-6th century A.D. lamps.CASCO DE MADERA CON FORMA DE CABEZA DE FOCA - SIGLO XVIII - PROCEDENTE DE LA BAHIA DEL PRINCIPE GUILLERMO (ALASKA) - 13,5 x 19,5 x 26 c. Location: MUSEO DE AMERICA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.Prehistory, Palestine, 4th millennium b.C. House-shaped ceramic ossuary.pendant with representation of a bear, middle Magdalenian, lower gallery of La Garma, Ribamontan al Monte, Museum of prehistory and archeology (MUPAC), Santander, Cantabria, SpainArchitectural Ornament in the Form of a Serpent Rattle. Mexico, Basin of Mexico, Teotihuacan, Teotihuacan, 450-650 CE. Stone. BasaltStone prism recording King Esarhaddon's restoration of Babylon. Dated 7th Century BCAnonymous, stove (usual name). Iridescent green glaze. Cernuschi Museum, Asia Museum of Asia in the city of Paris.Find from Grave IV, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BC. Gold death-masks made of sheet metal.statuette of the goddess Isis with her son Horus, bronze, late period, Egypt, collection of the British Museum.Monographic Museum of Pollentia, loom weights, Alcudia, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.decorated cylindrical neck jars, early iron age, Museum of Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra,Spain.Stylized Figure Pendant. Costa Rica; Guanacaste. 11th-16th century. Cast gold alloy. This elegant elongated pendant has an upright human torso and a head with a crocodile muzzle.Iberian Excised Box Iberian Excised Box, Valladolid Museum - Provincial Museum of Antiquities, Autonomous Community of Castile and Leon, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 22539470Roman glasses. Left: 3rd-4th centuries. Right: 4th century. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.Roaring hippopotamus. Egyptian faience. Origin unknown. 12th-17th Dynasties. C. 1990-1550 BC. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen, Denmark.Venus de la Garriga. Museo de Arte Medieval de Vic.Storage jar from Tell es-Saidiyeh, Late Bronze Age From Stratum XIV 13th century BC. Tell es Sa'idiyeh, is identified as the biblical city of Zarethan, in the central Jordan Valley. Most probably used for containing grain or liquidFragment of a Bowl 9th-10th century. Fragment of a Bowl. 9th-10th century. Earthenware; buff slip, decoration in black with touches of red, green and bright yellow. Excavated in Iran, Nishapur. Attributed to Iran, Nishapur. CeramicsPrehistory, Italy, Mesolithic. Staghorn trowel with geometric decorations.Fragment of a vessel with a monogram; Unknown Nubian workshop; VII-XIV century (601-00-00-1400-00-00);Rafał, Archangel (Saint), Old Dongola (Sudan), Nubian ceramics, bowls, monograms, nuub vessels, Polish excavations in Old DongolaCERAMICA DE IBIZA.Potter s moulds and stamps Potter s moulds and stamps, 425-100 BC, Archaeological Museum of Ibiza and Formentera, Ibiza, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 23005759Ancient children's toy, Two simple clay figurines depicting a horse and parts of a cart, Archaeological Museum, Archea Korinthos, Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece, Europe'Hand with a Bracelet (fragment of a statue)'. Kition or Golgos (Idalion). Cyprus, Early 6th century BC. Dimensions: h. 17,3 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.Coffin set of Lady Tadinehemetawy. Dated 650 BCRoof adornment (finial) made from fired clay. Circa 13th-14th century. The figure is in the form of an imaginary animal.Oenochoe in the shape of a human head. Molded terracotta, black varnish. Athens, around 460 BC. AD Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 59720-4 African, Greek antiquity, Greek art, attic, drink, ceramic, jug, molding, oenochoe, ancient period, pitcher, container, terracotta, head, 5th 5th 5th 5th 5th century Av.jc, black varnish, wineAmphoras. Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology.Raeren, Pottery MuseumCANDIL DE PIQUERA CON ANILLO DE SOLERO MUY DESARROLLADO CON FORMA TRONCOCONICA - BRONCE CINCELADO - 1101-1125 - ALMORAVIDE - 10,3x16,5 cm. Location: ALHAMBRA-MUSEO-METALISTERIA. GRANADA. SPAIN.Goldweight Cluster of Peanuts, 19th-20th century, 3 11/16 x 1 7/8 x 1 5/16 in. (9.37 x 4.76 x 3.33 cm), Brass, Ghana, 19th-20th centurybronze votive offering bronze votive offering, Iberian sanctuaries of Collado de los Jardines and Castellar de Santisteban, Iberian culture, Archeological Museum. Úbeda, Jaén province, Andalusia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21702930Shield carrier in the form of a lion with coat of arms, anonymous, c. 1400 - c. 1950 WIPDER OIKHOUT in the form of a lion with coat of arms. Traces of polychromy. Coming from the counter of the Hof van Holland, founded by Karel de Stoute on the Binnenhof in The Hague. unknown oak (wood) WIPDER OIKHOUT in the form of a lion with coat of arms. Traces of polychromy. Coming from the counter of the Hof van Holland, founded by Karel de Stoute on the Binnenhof in The Hague. unknown oak (wood)Armband. Mexico, Gulf Coast, Northern Veracruz, Mezcala, 800-1250 CE. ShellEwer 19th century. Ewer 443153Construction clip. Oak balcony key.Bronze Buddhist bell, national treasure #302, at the National Museum of Korea Seoul South KoreaRemains of Roman lead pipes. Church of the Apostle, Cologne (Germany). Roman-Germanic Museum. Cologne. Germany.Shabti. Egypt, 19th - 30th Dynasty (1569 - 31 BCE). Sculpture. Terracottaurn with painted decoration, 1st century BC, Cerro Maquiz, Iberian Museum of Jaén, Andalusia, Spain.Lamp. UnknownOcelot offering vessel from Teotihuacan. Dated 300 ADweibliches anthropomorphes Gefäß weibliches anthropomorphes Gefäß Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22682473Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902). "Children's arm". Terracotta, S.D. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Anatomy, right arm, finger, child, hand, terracottaExhibit at new wing of Olympia Archaeological Museum, also known as Historical Museum of Olympic Games, Olympia, GreeceDisplay of Moorish design woodwork and stonework inside former Great Mosque mosque, Cordoba, Spain, EuropeCeramic cylindrical polychrome vessel from Honduras. Dated 8th Century BCAimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902). "Glaneuse in the apron". Terracotta, 1894. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Date, below base, label, gleaneuse, number inventory, apron, terracottaRaven Crest (red cedar) from the summit of a pole or beam end. 19th century, Haida people, Alaska or British Columbia. Northwest Coast of America.Pectoral. Panama, Veraguas, Coclé, 400-1520 CE. Metal. Tumbaga gold and copper alloyAncient Egypt. Crocodile mummy wrapped in bandages. Egyptian Museum of Turin. Italy.Belgium, Kaaskerke. Dodengang. Gut of Death. Souvenir item on display at the museum.Kponyugo Helm Maske Kponyugo helmet mask, Senufo, Sierra Leone or Liberia, 20th century, carved wood, MEB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 23171249The Head of Nefertem (also known as the Head from the Lotus Bloom or Tutankhamen as the Sun God) was found in the tomb of Tutankhamen (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings in West Thebes. It depicts the King (Pharaoh) as a child and dates from the 18th dynasty (New Kingdom).Made of bronze. From the period of Three Kingdoms in Korea (57 BCE - 668) despite the existence of more than 70 tribes throughout Korean territory at the time.Headrest made with two interlocking elements with hieroglyphic inscription. Wood. New Kingdom (1539-1077 BCE). Provenance unknown. Egyptian Museum of Turin. Italy.Icelandic Medieval, stone grinder used for grinding claystone of various colours, probably for use in dyeing and painting.BROCAL DE ALJIBE ENCARGADO POR AL-ZAHIR - 1032 - 0,77 m x 0,73 m - MARMOL. Location: MUSEO HOSPITAL DE SANTA CRUZ. Toledo. SPAIN.SPAIN - Riojilla Burgalesa (district) - Castille and Leon - BURGOS. Redecilla del Camino, romanesque baptismal font of the XIIth century (Sant James pilgrimage way to Santiago)Granite Nandi from Mysore, India. Dated 13th CenturyBasin, marble. Montfort. Roman period, 1st century CE. This imperial Roman vessel was found in a Crusaders fortress and use of the baptismal fount or a receptacle for holy water. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.mirror made in bronze 10.th to 8 th century BC; GreekBowl of red breccia, 2800-2686 BC. 2nd Dyn. EGYPT.Magnetism was originally used, not for navigation, but for geomancy and fortune-telling by the Chinese. The earliest Chinese magnetic compasses were probably not designed for navigation, but rather to order and harmonize their environments and buildings in accordance with the geomantic principles of feng shuiFunerary Ara dedicated to child Numerius Poblinius Hilarus, dead 2 years ago, 3 months and 9 days. Early 2nd century. National Archaeological Museum, Tarragona. Spain.Bronze fitting in the shape of a bull's head inlaid with gold and silver. Eastern Zhou period, 4th century BCFragment of a Figurine - HeadRafter finial in the shape of a dragons head and wind chime 10th century Korea This finial in the shape of a dragons head would originally have been attached to a corner rafter of a royal hall or a Buddhist temple building (see, for example, the photograph to the right of a wood model pagoda from the Goryeo dynasty).The beasts bulging eyes, flaring nostrils, and elaborate scales convey the fierceness and invincibility of this auspicious creature. The bell, which functioned as a wind chime, once had a metal-plate clapper inside and would have been suspended by a hook from the loop at the mouth of the dragon. The decorative panels on the lower halves of both faces of the bell feature a swastika (an ancient symbol associated with the Buddha) within a lotus-flower platform. The only other comparable example to this pair is in the collection of Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul.. Rafter finial in the shape of a dragons head and wind chime. Korea. 10th century. Gilt bronze. early GorMexico.Mexico city.National Museum of Anthropology.Ceramic of the Northern Cultures.Gilded statuette of the God Horus. From the tomb of King Tutankhamen. 1323 BC. 18th dynasty, New KingdomWooden mask from Central Peru. Dated 11th CenturyHalberd Head with Hooked Blade ca. second half of the 13th century Indonesia (Java). Halberd Head with Hooked Blade 39410Ammonite fossil display in museum at Bruton, Somerset, England, UKPIEDRA GRABADA DEL POBLADO DE ZONZAMAS. Location: CASTILLO DE SAN GABRIEL. ARRECIFE. LANZAROTE. SPAIN.