Lot 149B
Native American, northwestern New Mexico, Chaco Canyon, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) culture, ca. 1075 to 1150 CE. A sizable, hand-built pottery pitcher with a round but stable base, a wide, apple-shaped body with a lightly-corseted shoulder, a tall, tapering neck with a flared rim, and a thick strap handle joining rim to shoulder. The exterior of the white-ground vessel is decorated with applied black pigment in repeating checkerboard registers boasting dozens of squares alternating between diagonal frets and emptiness, and the handle exhibits a similar diamond-shaped motif. All black-painted embellishments are painted in a style characteristic of Chaco Canyon called "Red Mesa Black-on-White." Size: 5.75" W x 9.5" H (14.6 cm x 24.1 cm).
For a stylistically-similar example with a different black-on-white motif, please see the National Park Service, Chaco Culture Natural Historical Park, catalog number CHCU 92338: https://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/chcu/obj/fullres/pitcher_chcu92338_full.html
Provenance: private New Jersey, USA collection, found on private land in Apache County, Arizona, USA on the Old Platt Ranch near St. Johns, Arizona, USA
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- Condition: Base repaired from multiple pieces with small losses, light restoration, and light adhesive residue along interior; resurfacing and light overpainting along exterior break lines. Loss to area of upper handle, small chips to rim and base, with light encrustations, and fading to areas of original pigmentation. Light earthen deposits throughout.
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