Featured Very old Hopi pot, I think

I think I may have picked up a genuinely old, old Hopi pot today at an estate sale. Six inches in diameter x 4.5 inches tall. Two old cracks. Unusual rabbit (maybe mouse) molded in relief, with a tail bulge on the opposite end. Very dark charcoal gray color inside. Inside was a ticket for Antiques Road Show (San Diego) with what looks like possibly a $$ estimate of value penned in on the back. Experts, please let me know what you think.

 

I'm no expert. It has the feel of this Casas Grande Ramos Polychrome Effigy ...
https://www.proxibid.com/Art-Antiqu...mos-Polychrome-Effigy/lotInformation/44463366

 

Really does look to be the same sort of work. Wonder if they truly meant "prehistoric," or pre columbian.

 

Yes, other sources say pre-Columbian (the history of Indigenous cultures until significant influence by Europeans). I'm surprised that there appears to be so many of these 500-800 year-old intact bowls and things around, and fairly affordable for the collector.

 

It does look like Casas Grandes (Paquime) pottery, from the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. The Casas Grandes culture is considered to be part of a complex ancestral to the Pueblo people of the greater southwest.

It is also the style that Juan Quezada copied when he originated the modern style of pottery created in Mata Ortiz.
https://www.theshamanslodge.com/new-products-2/juan-quezada-pottery-casa-grande-style

 

It's not Hopi.

Others are right: Casas Grandes, Northern Mexico, related to the Mata Ortiz pottery of the last 50 years.

The question is whether it's really, really old, or 50 years old. Based on the wear, and the brightness of the lines and colors, I'm inclined to say it's a more contemporary effigy pot made 'in the style of' those very old pieces.

It's an interesting piece, and probably well worth what you woulda paid for it at an estate sale, but probably not a way-old piece.

 

Thank you, all