**Originally Listed At $500**

Pre-Columbian, Valley of Mexico, Mixtec people, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A hand-built and highly burnished pottery vessel exhibiting an attractive red and tan color scheme that divided the body into colorful hemispheres and creates a segmented pattern along the stirrup-shaped handle. The vessel has a round but stable base, sloped walls, a tapered filling spout with a receptacle on the interior surface, and a slightly curved pouring spout with a narrow mouth. Based on the design, this vessel was perhaps used as a baby-feeder with a rounded, smooth spout tip for teething infants. Size: 5.7" L x 4.625" W x 6.2" H (14.5 cm x 11.7 cm x 15.7 cm)

Provenance: ex-Alfred Stendahl collection, owner of Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA, acquired before 1980

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#153812

Handle repaired from two large pieces and one spout reattached to body, with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Minor abrasions and nicks to base, body, spouts, and handle, with light fading to areas of original pigment, and light encrustations. Great remains of original pigment throughout.