Lot 93E
Native American, southwest New Mexico, villages in Southern Cibola Anasazi / Northern Mogollon, Ancestral Puebloan / Anasazi culture, ca. 1150 to 1300 CE. A stunning example of a black-on-white ceramic Anasazi seed jar rife with expert artistry and aesthetic appeal. The spherical body has a rounded yet stable base, smooth walls, and a pair of angled lug handles which flank a squat spout. The vessel's top half is decorated with a mesmerizing program of abstract geometric motifs, with solid and striped spirals, stepped bars, and linear designs all interwoven with one another in black and dark-brown hues atop a white ground. The interior is unpainted, and the underside is white. A fabulous example created by the Mogollon Indians of the early Anasazi who occupied the Tularosa region! Size: 5.25" H (13.3 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.
Many groups of indigenous peoples occupied the Tularosa region before the Apache drove them out in the 1800s. While some settled elsewhere; some groups completely disbanded. The Tularosa Basin in New Mexico was a rich source of Paleo Native American sites. Very little was known about the life of the Tularosa Basin; however, scholars have determined that the Anasazi and Mogollon peoples resided in the Tularosa Basin. The Anasazi culture existed from approximately 200 to 1300 CE, and their movement from the Tularosa Basin to the pueblos of the southwest has been identified. Tularosa is a village in Otero, New Mexico that shares its name with the Tularosa Basin where the town is located.
Provenance: ex-private Ohio, USA collection, deaccessioned from the Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York, USA
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- Condition: Spout has been restored, with overpainting to spout and neck base. Small areas of restoration and overpainting across body. Expected age-commensurate surface wear and abrasions, small chips to handles and body, and fading to pigmentation, otherwise excellent. Light earthen deposits throughout. Nice craquelure to surface pigmentation. Two old inventory stickers on base.
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