Casas Grandes (Paquimé), Chihuahua, Mexico
1200 CE, Ramos Polychrome
Ceramic, slip, mineral pigment
Height 7½ in (19.1 cm); diameter 7 in (17.8 cm)
Provenance: Peter Tillou, Litchfield, CT; appraised by Marianne Huber, 2014. Not recovered from Federal or State land.
Casas Grandes Ramos Polychrome represents the most accomplished ceramic tradition of the Paquimé culture, produced in the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico between approximately 1200 and 1450 CE and characterized by bold figurative and geometric decoration in black and red-orange on a cream slip ground. The iconographic program of Ramos Polychrome vessels frequently incorporates bird and serpent imagery drawn from a ceremonial vocabulary shared with Mesoamerican cultures to the south, connected through the long-distance trade networks centered at Paquimé. This olla carries large bird or serpent figures with distinctive scroll and eye elements, set within a composition of geometric diamond forms, zigzag bands, and hatch-filled zones that cover the body of the vessel with controlled complexity.
The form tapers toward a flat base, a characteristic profile of Casas Grandes ollas, with a short neck and slightly everted rim. The surface retains original polychrome pigment with honest age and wear consistent with a vessel of this period. Peter Tillou of Litchfield, Connecticut was among the most respected American dealers and collectors of decorative arts and ethnographic material of the twentieth century, and objects from his collection carry the confidence of serious, sustained connoisseurship.
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Casas Grandes (Paquimé), Chihuahua, Mexico
1200 CE, Ramos Polychrome
Ceramic, slip, mineral pigment
Height 7½ in (19.1 cm); diameter 7 in (17.8 cm)
Provenance: Peter Tillou, Litchfield, CT; appraised by Marianne Huber, 2014. Not recovered from Federal or State land.
Casas Grandes Ramos Polychrome represents the most accomplished ceramic tradition of the Paquimé culture, produced in the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico between approximately 1200 and 1450 CE and characterized by bold figurative and geometric decoration in black and red-orange on a cream slip ground. The iconographic program of Ramos Polychrome vessels frequently incorporates bird and serpent imagery drawn from a ceremonial vocabulary shared with Mesoamerican cultures to the south, connected through the long-distance trade networks centered at Paquimé. This olla carries large bird or serpent figures with distinctive scroll and eye elements, set within a composition of geometric diamond forms, zigzag bands, and hatch-filled zones that cover the body of the vessel with controlled complexity.
The form tapers toward a flat base, a characteristic profile of Casas Grandes ollas, with a short neck and slightly everted rim. The surface retains original polychrome pigment with honest age and wear consistent with a vessel of this period. Peter Tillou of Litchfield, Connecticut was among the most respected American dealers and collectors of decorative arts and ethnographic material of the twentieth century, and objects from his collection carry the confidence of serious, sustained connoisseurship.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
