The pieces

Every photograph on this site shows a piece from our own collection, and each piece shown has a documented history: an earlier collection, an earlier sale, a museum exhibition, a publication or a laboratory test. They are here to show the standard we look for in what we buy; this site does not offer them.

Nazca

• Effigy jar: a mythical being holding a small figure and trophy heads. Peru. Slip-painted earthenware. The Jay C. Leff collection, Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, 1966-67 (catalogue no. 553). Offered by Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 1975.
• Anthropomorphic jar: a mythical being holding a warrior. Peru. Slip-painted earthenware. Published on the cover of the Übersee-Museum Bremen exhibition catalogue 'Alt Peru, Sammlung Kemper', 1973. Offered at Hôtel Drouot, Paris (Loudmer), 1995.

Maya

• Three-part effigy vessel: a seated figure with folded arms and a glyph panel on the lap. Early Classic. From the Deletaille collection, Brussels. Exhibited at the Société Générale de Banque, Brussels, 1976-77 (no. 173), and in 'Trésors du Nouveau Monde', Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, 1992 (fig. 172). Published in 'Rediscovered Masterpieces of Mesoamerica' (1985), by Nicholas Hellmuth in 'Maya Cylindrical Tripods' (1985) and by Karl Taube in the Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts (1991).
• Incised double-lidded cache vessel with a carved lid-plate. Early Classic. From the Deletaille collection, Brussels. Published in 'Rediscovered Masterpieces of Mesoamerica' (Berjonneau, Deletaille and Sonnery, 1985), page 231, fig. 355. Offered at TEFAF Maastricht, 1997, and pictured in its handbook.

Paracas

• Large globular funerary jar with a figure in relief. Peru. Black-slipped earthenware. From the Estate of Benjamin B. Johnson. Offered at Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 1991 (sale 6239, lot 8), and at Loudmer, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 March 1995 (lot 20, plate 2).