Description:

Native American, Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi), Southern Colorado Plateau, ca. 1075 to 1250 CE. A beautiful, used example of a ladle in the black-on-white pottery tradition. It is well polished, slipped, and has a white-grey surface with black decoration of regular triangles that resembles a snowy mountain range silhouetted against a dark sky. The ladle once had a long, thick handle attached to its ovoid bowl. This ladle was made for heating and serving food, and would have been deposited with a deceased member of the community or left in an abandoned domestic space. Size: 5" Diameter x 3" H (12.7 cm x 7.6 cm)

Please note this item may fall under the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act and may not eligible for international shipping. Native American, Alaska Native, & Native Hawaiian objects are only eligible to ship within the United States.

Provenance: private La Crescenta, California, USA collection; ex-Artemis Gallery; ex-Joan Shaw collection, purchased in 1971 - then loaned to the Mesa Verde Museum, 1962-1970; ex-Bill Mitchell collection, Cortez , Colorado, USA, from 1958 - 1962

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#180433

  • Condition: Handle is absent as shown. Hairline fissures radiating from rim and across base. Nice deposits on surface and great preservation of motifs. Handwritten collection number on underside.

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