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Message:: [QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 1771023, member: 8267"]An article by Thomas H. Charlton - "Modern Ceramics in the Teotihuacan Valley" - seems to describe your object quite well. The article is included in Ethnic and Tourist Arts: Cultural Expressions from the Fourth World, edited by Nelson Graburn. University of California Press, 1977, (pgs. 139-140): One variety of pottery produced is "polished black with incised designs into which a white pigment has been rubbed".... "The forms of the unglazed pottery vary, but frequently emphasize "archaeological" themes such as pyramid forms, dishes with variations of the Aztec calendar stone, elaborate figurines, and vessels with figurine heads applied as decorative elements. These wares appear to be designed for the tourist trade rather than domestic use....The incised white-on-black ware dates back at least to the 1880s and may have started as early as the beginning of the nineteenth century."[/QUOTE]