Ancient Mesoamerican (Western-Mexico) Pre-Columbian Culture known for ceramics celebrates the connections between individuals and among community members. Artifact commonly depict male and female figures representing ancestors or village leaders, observing the ballgame, playing instruments or engaged in a rituals activities. These scenes are highly animated, with various figures often touching and gesturing in conversation.

Ancient Mesoamerican (North Western-Mexico) Pre-Columbian Culture known for ceramics celebrates the connections between individuals and among community members with affinity in depicting dogs. The people of the Colima Culture valued their dogs, who were their companions, guardians and sometimes even their food. Their Redware Artifact commonly depict male and female figures representing ancestors or village leaders, observing the ballgame, playing instruments or engaged in a rituals activities.

Ancient Mesoamerica (Mexican Gulf-coast) Pre-Columbian Culture known for ceramics depicting figures with animated expressions, (where emotion of any kind is rarely depicted in other Mesoamerican Art). Musicians holding rattles are depicted playing similar rattles in ceremonial scenes along with ceremonial whistles.  The artistically gifted Veracruzanos created particularly inventive ceramic sculpture in diverse yet related styles.

Ancient Northern Coastal Peru Pre-Columbian Culture known for distinctive art objects. Remarkable for their sculptural naturalism, these stirrup-spout bottles were molded without the aid of a potter’s wheel and painted in earth tones. Moche potters represented everything about their world, from domestic scenes to architecture, ritual events and royal personages, and animals and plants. The Moche were innovators on many political, ideological, and artistic levels. They developed a powerful elite and specialized craft production, and instituted labor tribute payments. They elaborated new technologies in metallurgy, pottery, and textile production, and finally, they created an elaborate ideological system and a complex religious iconography.

Ancient Coastal Peru Pre-Columbian Culture known for especially the black-ware type, best known and most common in Peruvian pre-Columbian tradition. Maritime motifs, well represented in Lambayeque tradition, were also prominent in Chimu pottery, including representation of fish, shells, and boats. Some vessels, even though made in molds are well modeled with carefully finished surfaces, implying a considerable investment of time and skill. The black color was achieved by firing the ceramic under conditions of limiting oxygen, thereby generating soot that bound to the vessel surface. The pottery was burnished after firing to produce the shiny black surface. Finally, it is interesting to note that Chimú rulers were themselves collectors of art from other cultures and their palaces were full of niches in which objects and statues were placed for display. 

Authentic Ethnographic Antiquities (Artifacts) from ancient Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, Columbia and Peru.  Artifacts from Nazca, Chavin, Manabi, Huari, Chancay, Chupicuaro,  Mezcala, Jamacoaque, Jalisco, Narino, Costa Rican Watershed, Recuay and Huastec Cultures.  Pre-Columbian art encompasses the artefacts created by the indigenous peoples from the second millennium BC to the time of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, when the existing cultures were conquered by the Europeans.

Various Ethnographic African and Oceania Cultures including Yoruba, Moba, Kurumba, Bamana, Igbo, Isoko, Ibibio (Anang), Baule, Senufo, Akan / Asante, Mali and Benin Cultures.  Authentic Tribal pieces from present day Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Northwest Togo, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, East Sepik Province and Papua New Guinea.

Genuine Antiquities from present day East Asia spanning Zhou, Han, Jin, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties. 

The Chinese were the masters of pottery and ceramics. They produced everything from heavy and functional storage jars in earthenware to exquisitely decorated bowls in the most delicate of porcelain, from vases to garden stools, teapots to pillows. They produced the first glaze wares, the first green celadons and the first underglaze wares painted with cobalt blue. Early developments in techniques and kilns led to both higher firing temperatures and the first glazed pottery during the Han period. Pottery, especially the vessels painted with a grey slip commonly found in Han tombs, very often imitated the shape and decoration of bronze vessels, and this would be a goal of many potters in later periods. Clay was used to produce small unglazed models of ordinary houses which were set in tombs to accompany the dead and, presumably, symbolically meet their need for a new home. Many such models are complete with adjacent animal pen and figurines of their occupants and animals.

Tang potters reached a level of technical proficiency greater than any of their predecessors. New colors glazes which were developed in the period included blues, greens, yellows, and browns, which were produced from cobalt, iron, and copper. Colors were mixed, too, producing the three-color wares the Tang period has become famous for. Rich inlays of gold and silver were also sometimes used to decorate Tang ceramics. In the Yuan (1271-1368 CE) and Ming (1368-1644 CE) periods even more famous ceramics would be produced with their distinctive and much-copied blue on white decoration which itself copied earlier Chinese paintings for design ideas. (worldhistory.org)

Paintings by thought after listed artist:

 Nicolaas Wilhelm (Nico) Jungmann DUTCH, 1872-1935 

Osvaldo Louis Guglielmi American (1906-1956)

Zhiyue Zheng Chinese ( b. 1957)

Arnold E. Turtle ( USA/ England 1892 - 1954) 

Paul Emile Lecomte (France 1877-1950)

Alfredo De Simone ( Uruguayan 1898-1950)

Maria del Carmen Calvo (America/Spain 1937-2019)

Manuel Valencia (American 1856-1935)

Fine Original Paintings $500 to $2500 by Various Listed Artists

Fine Original Paintings Under $500 by Various Listed Artists

Miscellaneous Antiquities and Heirlooms