Description:

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A wonderful ensemble of 4 pottery vessels: 2 blackware figural jars, 1 redware tripod vessel, and 1 redware nodular bottle. First, the blackware vessels each show projecting, anthropomorphic heads, though the largest has a bulbous body and a protruding spout, while the other is of tubular form and displays arms, legs, and genitalia. Next, the redware tripod presents a hemispherical body supported by 3 slender legs as twin arched handles rise from its flared rim. Last, the redware bottle exhibits a globular body with applied nodules, a lengthy neck that flares out to an annular rim, and liberal remains of white stucco scattered throughout the surface. Size of largest: 3.9" Diameter x 4" H (9.9 cm x 10.2 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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#171541

  • Condition: Restoration to handle of tripod, rim and spout of largest, and arm of more petite figural. All have expected nicks, scratches and abrasions, commensurate with age. Chipping to rims of both figural. Otherwise, nodular is intact and all are very nice with great earthen deposits.

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