**Originally Listed At $350**

Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Jalisco, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE; Nayarit, ca. 300 to 600 CE; Ecuador, ca. 100 to 1000 CE. A collection of 3 ancient Mesoamerican / Pre-Columbian pottery pieces. The seated pottery figure and spherical pot with the narrow spout come from west Mexican Shaft tomb cultures. Remains of red and white pigment are visible across the Jalisco figure, and linear patterning encircles the nubs on the Nayarit pot. The other pot when viewed from above is the face of a monkey- squinting eyes and nose bridge pinched into the body with the wide spout forming a mouth - a howler monkey mid shriek! This was likely made by a culture ranging from southern Mexico to Ecuador - the range of these rainforest simians. Size of Nayarit vessel: 6" Diameter x 5.5" H (15.2 cm x 14 cm)

Provenance: private San Francisco, California, USA collection, acquired 1970s to 2000s

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#174057

Chips and losses to rim on monkey vessel, and light mineral deposits and eathern encrustations. Jalisco figure intact and very good with manganese deposits. Redware vessel has chips to rim and fading to painted motifs, otherwise intact.