Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, Chinesco type, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A fine ensemble of 3 hand-built pottery vessels with highly burnished surfaces and ochre hues. First is a flat-bottomed cup or bowl with an apple-shaped body, a thick rim, and a deep basin. Next is a gourd-shaped jar with bulging walls and a gently flared rim. The largest vessel is a carinated jar with a slightly concave base, a rounded shoulder, and a tall, thick rim. Size of largest (carinated jar): 6.7" W x 5.4" H (17 cm x 13.7 cm)
Provenance: private Arcadia, California, USA collection, acquired prior to 2000
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#162398
Condition
Rim of gourd-shaped vessel reattached to top of shoulders, with repair to small chip on top of rim, and resurfacing with overpainting along break lines; cup and carinated jar are intact and very good. Each piece has minor abrasions and nicks to rims, with light fading to surface pigment. Nice smooth surfaces to carinated jar and gourd-shaped jar. Old inventory label beneath base of each vessel.