Museum-quality, art-primitive, giant cocucha pottery vessels from Cocucho, Michoacan, Mexico

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Artful, primitive, and majestic, Cocuchas.com (pronounced co-cu-CHAS) offers the highly sought after museum-quality, giant cocucha pottery vessels made of volcanic clay from the pueblo purépecha, Cocucho, Michoacan, Mexico. Each hand-built, timeless pottery vessel offered for sale by Cocuchas.com is a commissioned work of pottery art, a masterpiece. Sizes range from 2 feet to over 6 feet.

Much more than the large Mexican clay pot one normally sees for sale, this distinctive, indigeneous, Mexican folk art pottery form is unique to the village of Cocucho, and a Cocucha clay vessel is easily recognized as such. The primitive African pottery technique to build cocuchas, taught to their village by the Catholic Church 300 years ago to build utilitarian water and grain storage vessels, is still employed. Cocucha pottery is hand-formed, charcoal fired, and splashed with a cornmeal solution to create the primitive yet refined surfaces for which they are known. The size, shape and surface of each pottery piece is totally hand-built and controlled by the hand and eye of the artist without the use of a wheel, mold or other mechanical device.

High-end ceramic primitive pottery vessels for interior décor, garden and patio design accents, and/or architectural accents and landscape design.Cocucha pottery can be displayed as indoor art-in-clay pottery vessels, garden accents or garden ornaments, and / or large, ceramic architectural sculptures. Wherever the giant, majestic cocucha is placed, it alters the space in which it is placed, making a bold, organic interior décor design statement suitable for any of the following interior or exterior ethnic, design palettes.

Mexican Décor	Rustic Country Interior Décor	Morroccan Décor
Hacienda Décor	Lodge Décor	Mediterranean Décor
Southwestern Décor	African Tribal Décor	Old world Décor
Primitive Décor	Western Cowboy Home Décor

Lyman Fogel of Indigenous Accents (no longer in business) was the visionary who first opened up the US market for this primitive, Michoacan pottery art form, and set the standard that is still adhered to today for these earthernware, pottery masterpieces.

If you have never been close enough to touch a truly artful cocucha, you have missed probably the most spectacular folkart form of Michoacan, Mexico. Rooted in ancient times, each timeless masterpiece is a prized folk art-in-clay pottery collectible.

The two basic finishes are "negra y roja" -- black and red.

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