Native American, Southwestern United States, Four Corners area, Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi), ca. 1075 to 1250 CE. A beautiful black-on-white pottery bowl made via the coil-and-scrape technique with geometric motifs across its tondo. The bowl rests on a rounded base with thin walls that rise steeply upwards to a wide opening. Vessels in this tradition were coated with pearly gray-white slip that was then overpainted with a black pigment made from carbon. The Anasazi were known to live in the desert within cliff dwellings like those seen at mesa Verde national Park - imagery that undoubtedly influenced much of their abstract motifs often depicting ladders and stepped shapes like those painted on this example. The bare exterior with cream-colored inclusions and earthen deposits scattered throughout is a beautiful homage to the expansive desert that surrounded them. The middle of the basin is left unadorned as well and provides an intriguing void in otherwise dense decorations. Size: 9.75" Diameter x 4.75" H (24.8 cm x 12.1 cm)
Provenance: ex-Jeffrey Evans Auctions, Mt. Crawford, Virginia, USA
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#164670
Condition
Chipping to rim as shown. Old labels have been placed on bottom, with remnants of partial removal. Light fading to painted motifs. Otherwise in good condition and intact.