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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 |
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| 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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