Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, Jalisco, or Nayarit culture, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Southern Mexico to Guatemala, Maya, Late Classic Period, ca. 550 to 900 CE. An ensemble of 10 earspools: 4 West Mexican blackware, 5 Maya redware, and 1 Maya shell. All the adornments present ring-shaped bodies with corseted walls, flared peripheries, and broad openings at the center. Incised crisscross, striated, and geometric patterns adorn the exteriors of 3 black earspools. Alternatively, the shell earring and 1 of the black both feature a grooved periphery on 1 end. Size (largest earspool): 1.4" Diameter x 0.6" W (3.6 cm x 1.5 cm)

Provenance: private Kansas, USA collection, acquired via descent from family in Jalisco, Mexico ca. the 1940s, and imported into the US in the 1970s and 1980s

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#171512

  • Condition: Repairs to 1 blackware and 4 redware with restoration over break lines of 2 redware. Minor losses to peripheries of 1 redware and 2 blackware. Chipping to peripheries of a few others. All have expected surface wear with nicks, scratches, and abrasions, commensurate with age. Otherwise, shell and 2 blackware are intact and all are very nice. Great remaining detail on incised pieces. Modern burnish to pottery earspools.

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