Chupicuaro & Costa Rican Redware Tripod Vessels (Auction 2026-06-05, Lot 34)

$449.75

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Chupicuaro, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE; Mesoamerica, Costa Rica, ca. 100 BCE to 500 CE. A complementary pair of pre-Columbian redware tripod vessels comprising a large shallow Chupicuaro bowl on hollow rattle legs with a lobed undulating rim and deep burnished red slip, accompanied by a smaller Costa Rican cup-form vessel on loop feet encircled by a lively band of applied pellet-and-scroll ornament, the two together spanning the ancient ceramic traditions of highland Guanajuato and the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Size of largest: 7.4″ Diameter x 3.3″ H (18.8 cm x 8.4 cm)

Provenance: private Colorado, USA collection; ex-private Los Angeles, California, USA collection; ex-major gallery, Beverly Hills, California, USA, primarily acquired between 1985 and 2005

Condition: Good. Both have some surface wear with nicks and abrasions commensurate with age. Otherwise, both intact and excellent with impressive remaining detail.