Cocuchas... the BIG, museum quality, art-primitive deco pots delivered to your door.

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 BIG Pot 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.

Don't be fooled by mass-produced cocucha replicas from Oaxaca or Tonala, or the "ordinary", poorly made, poorly cooked cocucha BIG pot. Cocuchas.com specializes in the truly artful, one-of-a-kind, collectible, museum-quality gigantes (giants), with some smaller cocuchas included. We work with six hand-picked artesanos and our purveyor, who oversees quality control, has worked with the Cocucho artesanos since the mid-90s. He previously worked with Lyman Fogel of Indigenous Accents (no longer in business) who was the visionary who first opened up the US market for this primitive, Michoacan pottery art form, and set the museum-quality standard that is still adhered to today by Cocuchas.com.

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 or outdoor art-in-clay pottery vessels, garden accents or garden ornaments, and / or large, ceramic architectural sculptures. Wherever the giant, majestic cocucha BIG Pot clay vessel is placed, it alters the space making a bold, organic interior décor design statement suitable for any of the following interior or exterior ethnic, design palettes.


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