Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Chupicuaro, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built redware pottery bowl featuring a flared rim, deep basin, and rounded bottom, all sitting upon 3 tapered feet. Deep red slip covers the entire interior and forms a base for the fine line black motifs along the exterior. These motifs depict repeated steps and pyramids with bold patches of creamy white pigment creating contrast against the dark red background. A small face with a raised nose, smiling, open mouth, and no eyes adorns one side of the bowl, while petite ridges line the rim, and a stippled pattern adorns the exterior. All 3 conical legs are hollow with short slits on their sides, indicating that they perhaps rattled at one time. Size: 7.8" in diameter x 3" H (19.8 cm x 7.6 cm)

Provenance: private J. Hart Collection, Houston, Texas, USA, acquired mid-1970's; ex-Miguel Mejia collection, acquired prior to the 1970s

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#167669

Chips to bottoms of feet. A few nicks and some abrasions, commensurate with age. Otherwise, excellent.