Lot 155
**Originally Listed At $1800**
North America, Southwest, Central eastern Arizona, Anasazi / Ancestral Puebloan, Greater Mogollon, Greater Salado, Upper Gila (Highland Salado), Roosevelt Red (Salado Polychrome) Ware, Tonto Polychrome, ca. 1350 to 1450 CE. A superb and quite sizeable example of Tonto Polychrome pottery and Anasazi iconography - a bulbous olla meticulously hand-painted with bold designs of a "toothed critter with eyes" around the neck and "bear claws" along the body. These abstract depictions are formed from spiraling, stepped, and geometric patterns that create mesmerizing decoration on the exterior of the vessel, while the olla itself was created via the coil-and-scrape technique traditionally used by the Ancestral Puebloans. An impressive feat of construction and ornamentation with an elegant silhouette and beautiful presentation; a magnificent addition to any collection! Size: 15" Diameter x 13" H (38.1 cm x 33 cm)
The Salado (Spanish for "salty") peoples migrated to the Salt River in Southeastern Arizona. They resided in the center of three major cultures of the Southwest of the time period: Anasazi to the North, Mogollon to the East and South, and the Hohokam to the West and Southwest. There are three recognized styles of Salado polychrome pottery: Pinta, Gila, and Tonto. All were done in red, white, and black polychrome. Tonto Polychrome probably developed out of earlier Pinto and Gila Polychromes. Red and white slips are applied to the exteriors of bowls, but unlike Gila Polychrome, the interiors are undecorated but sometimes smudged.
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Provenance: private New Jersey, USA collection; ex-Pook and Pook Auction, Native American & Ethnographic Auction, October 29, 2020, lot 122
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- Condition: Repaired and restored from many pieces, 80% or more original material. Overpainting and infill to exterior. Stable fissures and gaps along breaks on exterior. Adhesive residue on interior. Good preservation to motifs.
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