SOLD! for $704.00.
(Note: Prices realized include a buyer's premium.)
If you have items like this you wish to consign, click here for more information:
Selling with Case- Low Estimate: $400.00
- High Estimate: $450.00
- Realized: $704.00
- Share this:
Six (6) Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican pottery vessels, one (1) grinding stone, 7 items total. 1st item: Colima culture buff ware with white slip and orange polychrome geometric designs to rounded body and flared neck, 2 3/4" H x 4 5/8" dia. 2nd item: Tiapacoyan, Mexico red ware with brown slip and red and white polychrome designs to double gourd body, slightly inverted lip, rounded base. 3 3/4" H x 4 1/4" dia. 3rd item: Chupicuaro culture grey ware with red slip pottery bowl with brown polychrome step designs to rounded body and elongated, pinched side, rounded base. 2 1/2" H x 5 3/4" W x 4 1/4" D. 4th item: Colima culture brown ware with red slip pottery bowl with flared lip, rounded base. 1 1/4" H x 4 5/8" dia. 5th item: Brown ware with red slip pottery bowl with round body and inverted lip, rounded base. 3" H x 5 7/8" dia. 6th item: Brown ware with red slip pottery vessel with double biconical body, flared neck, rounded base. 3" H x 4 1/2" dia. 7th item: Grinding stone. 2 1/2" H x 3 3/4" dia. Provenance: Estate of Celia (Cece) Webb, Nashville, TN, purchased in the 1970s. Note: 1st-3rd items purchased from the Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee. CONDITION: 1st item: Overall good condition. Areas of loss, craquelure to slip. Approximately 6 1/2" hair line extending from lip to base. 2nd item: Overall good condition. Areas of loss to slip. Dirt encrustation to interior of vessel. 3rd item: Overall good condition with firing flaws to body. 3/8" area of loss to lip. Old scotch tape to base. 4th item: Overall good condition. Areas of loss to slip. Old scotch tape to base. 5th item: Overall good condition. Areas of loss to slip and polychrome. Hairline, areas of repair, largest 5 1/2", to body. 6th item: Overall good condition. Areas of loss, largest 1/2", to lip. Old scotch tape to base.