Ancient Chupicuaro Blackware & Redware Pottery (Auction 2026-06-05, Lot 35)

$385.50

Pre-Columbian, Central Mexico, Chupicuaro culture, ca. 400 BCE to 200 CE. A group of two pottery vessels comprising one blackware and one redware example. The blackware vessel stands on three short legs with piercings, possibly for suspension. The second vessel is a red-slipped bowl with black and buff painted linear decoration. Its rim is modeled with small projecting tabs suggesting limbs and a head, with pierced openings indicating eyes and a mouth. Size of largest: 8.2″ W x 7.3″ H (20.8 cm x 18.5 cm)

Provenance: private collection of S. Saunders, Nogales Arizona, USA collection

Condition: The largest has deep abrasions and stable fissure radiating across the exterior and hairline fissure on the interior. The bowl has a hairline fissure radiating from the rim. Abrasions and chips to surfaces of both. Stable conditions.