Pre-Columbian, Northern Mexico, Casas Grandes, Ramos, ca. 1100 to 1200 CE. A skillfully coil-made and hand-painted polychrome Casas Grandes pottery vessel. The elegant form is comprised of a large, bulbous, and round-bottomed body, a short, upturned rim, and a face with coffee-bean shaped eyes, protruding nose, and a puffy face extending above the rim. The painted decorations are characteristic of the Ramos style; Ramos is a stylistic designation used when red painted forms are outlined in black. The painted motifs covering the body boast lovely circular, triangular, stepped, checkerboard, and zigzag forms. The finest Casas Grandes polychromes are usually Ramos Polychrome. The skill, standardization, and iconographic content show that vessels like this were more developed than other forms of folk art. Size: 6.25" W x 7.75" H (15.9 cm x 19.7 cm).

The Casas Grandes (or Chihuahua) culture has always been the best known of the prehistoric cultures of northwest Mexico. International awareness of the culture first derived from its polychrome pottery and from the massive ruins of the culture's principal center, Casas Grandes—now better known as Paquimé.

Provenance: ex-Kurquhill's Gallery, El Paso, Texas, USA; ex-private El Paso, Texas, USA collection, acquired early to mid 1970s

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Surface wear and roughness commensurate with age, fading and loss to painted details and pigment, with very good mineral deposits throughout.