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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1796222, member: 2844"]Liz, I'm afraid I have to agree with the so-called experts.</p><p>My parents bought two similar ones ca 1970 from a family of vendors in San Juan de Teotihuacán, in the grounds of the pyramid complex. One with a rounded mask like yours, which they called a moon deity, and one with a more squared Veracruz style mask, which they called the sun deity.</p><p>I was there with my parents, and the vendors never pretended they were pre-Columbian, they said the pots were made by family members.</p><p><br /></p><p>True pre-Columbian Mexican ceramics have a smoother surface, and are usually more detailed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 1796222, member: 2844"]Liz, I'm afraid I have to agree with the so-called experts. My parents bought two similar ones ca 1970 from a family of vendors in San Juan de Teotihuacán, in the grounds of the pyramid complex. One with a rounded mask like yours, which they called a moon deity, and one with a more squared Veracruz style mask, which they called the sun deity. I was there with my parents, and the vendors never pretended they were pre-Columbian, they said the pots were made by family members. True pre-Columbian Mexican ceramics have a smoother surface, and are usually more detailed.[/QUOTE]
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