Lot 256
Native American, southwest New Mexico, villages in southern Cibola Anasazi/northern Mogollon, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) culture, ca. 1200 to 1400 CE. A stunning pottery pitcher, intricately hand-painted with elaborate black-on-white decoration of mesmerizing spiral, linear, and geometric motifs. The bulbous body features a thick, horizontal band of repeated spiraling steppe designs surrounded by parallel striations, zigzag patterns, and triangular ornaments, while a thick ribbon-form handle connects the body to the tubular neck, ending just below the flared rim. A lozenge pattern encompasses the neck, and lightning-like decoration envelops the handle. Size: 7.25" W x 6.9" H (18.4 cm x 17.5 cm)
Tularosa pottery from the Starkweather Ruin has been divided into three styles - Wingate, Snowflake and Tularosa - reflecting similarities in decoration with their source types. Classic Tularosa Style designs are based on spirals, a diagnostic feature of the type. However, the spiral-stairstep motif that we see in this example is considered to be the most advanced development. Though the meanings of many of these symbols have been lost via the passage of time, scholars posit that they are largely reference natural phenomena and human relations. For example, the interlocked terrace motifs may symbolize house/marriage or clouds/lightning, the intermeshed spirals could mean friendship, the dotted lattice patterns may be intended to represent corn, and the triangles could be additional clouds
Provenance: private New Jersey, USA collection, purchased November 13, 2016; ex-Cottonwood, Arizona, USA collection
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- Condition: Professional restoration to area of rim, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Minor abrasions and fading to pigment, with light earthen deposits, otherwise in great condition. Wonderful preservation to painted decorations. Old inventory number handwritten beneath base.
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