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Chupicuaro Pottery Couple - Rare!
Chupicuaro Pottery Couple - Rare!
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Description
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Chupicuaro culture, ca. 500 BCE to 300 CE. A hand-built conjoined male and female couple standing atop delineated, attenuated legs with rotund abdomens and lengthy arms. Each figure boasts coffee-bean-shaped adornments, perhaps small shells, on their necklaces and armbands as well as exposed genitalia. Their heads are flat with pinched noses, diagonally-slit eyes, and large discoid earspools, and both heads are lined with an incised head band and a central, red-orange-hued amulet. Typical Chupicuaro figures are created as singular figures, so this conjoined example is one of extreme rarity! Custom wooden display stand included. Size: 3.375" W x 3.25" H (8.6 cm x 8.3 cm); 4.125" H (10.5 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private Southern California, USA collection, acquired in the 1970s to mid-1980s

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Condition
Repaired from multiple large pieces with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Minor nicks to legs, bodies, arms, and heads, with fading to original pigmentation and some finer details. Nice earthen deposits throughout. Old inventory label beneath stand base.
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Chupicuaro Pottery Couple - Rare!

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Starting Price $400
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