Description:

Native American, southwestern United States, Arizona to New Mexico, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi), ca. 1275 to 1325 CE. A beautiful bowl created by Anasazi artisans, likely of St. Johns - the first Anasazi potters to make polychrome pottery during the prehistoric period. Prior to this, pottery was either black-on-white or black-on-red. Here we see black-on-red with added white on both the interior and exterior walls - the third color making for a polychrome designation. On the interior is a complex abstract motif that includes step motifs, thick crossing bands, as well as striated and solid red triangular motifs. The exterior presents an intricate decorative program of black and white bands surrounding a central register of repeated diagonal lines with three frets at each end, one trio extending upward and the other extending downward delineated in white on red. Size: 6.375" in diameter x 3.125" H (16.2 cm x 7.9 cm)

Provenance: ex private southern California, USA collection

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#150169

  • Condition: Repaired from about 3-5 pieces with minute losses and areas of adhesive visible at the break lines. Scattered deposits grace the surface. Normal surface wear with scuffs and slight pigment losses commensurate with age. This said, the form as well as the painted imagery are generally well preserved.

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