NUPE POT SUPPORTS ARCHIVES, Nigeria

The vesssels below have been sold they are left here for educational and reference purposes.

NUPE Support 1 23" high SOLD

NUPE Support 13 23" high SOLD

NUPE Support 14 23" high SOLD

NUPE Support 5 26" high $1400

NUPE Support 6 24" high SOLD

NUPE Support 8 21" high SOLD

NUPE Support 9 26" high SOLD

NUPE Support 10 25" high SOLD

NUPE Support 7 SOLD

NUPE Support 11 SOLD

NUPE Support 3 SOLD*

NUPE Support 15 SOLD*

NUPE Support 12 19" high SOLD *

NUPE Support 2 24" high SOLD *

NUPE Support 4 23" high SOLD*

These Nupe pot supports have been vetted as authentic, with signs of age and use.  *Nupe pot support 3 was selected by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and was donated to their permanent collection. *Nupe pot support 15 was selected by the Fitchburg Museum and was donated to their permanent collection.

These tall, elegant flaring forms are supports, buried halfway in the ground to provide a stable base for a stack of the rounder Nupe pots. Whole walls of terracotta pots often lined the inside of Nupe houses. Most of these pieces show evidence of being buried, sometimes with deterioration or encrustation, most often with the exposed top portion darkened with smoke from cooking and fires kept in the home.