A zoomorphic vessel hand-built of orange/brown earthenware with modeled details. The surface is smooth and burnished. he neck is high and tublar, with a single strap handle extending from the neck to the rounded, egg-shaped body. The spout is modeled like an animal neck and head, with ears pointing upward. There is an incised row ...

Frog Vessel. Colima, Mexico, ceramic. 200-300 BCE

THREE IRANIAN POTTERY ZOOMORPHIC VESSELS CIRCA 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. Including one in the form of a goat with backward curving horns; and two each in the form of a bull Goat: 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) high

Bid Live on Lot 94 in the African and Oceanic Art (Lempertz Brussels) Auction from Kunsthaus Lempertz.

locaantiqua: A zoomorphic vessel in the shape of a hedgehog (?), fr. Chalandriani, Syros, Greece, Early Cycladic II (2700-2200 B.C.)

The ribbed horn of an ibex (a type of wild goat) forms the handle of this vessel. Made for ritual use, liquid, perhaps oil, could be poured into the tail and out of the animal's mouth.