Native American, Southwestern United States, Arizona or New Mexico, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) / Mogollon culture, ca. 1175 to 1325 CE. A beautiful hand built Pinedale black-on-red pottery bowl with a rounded but stable base and thick walls that swell upward. The exterior is unadorned, but the interior is intricately painted. The motifs consist of double spirals made up of multiple bands and linear patterning. Checkerboard motifs adorn the interior rim as well, adding to the mesmerizing patterning. The exterior is a red-terracotta hue with darker inclusions. The pottery is formed with iron-rich clays using the coil and scrape technique. This type is primarily known from the Pinedale Ruin, a settlement of approximately 200 rooms located near modern-day Show Low, Arizona. The people who lived at Pinedale would have been at the edges of the cultural sphere governed by Chaco Canyon and, by the time they created this bowl, lived a sedentary agricultural lifestyle. A bowl like this one may have held ground corn. Size: 11.125" Diameter x 5.35" H (28.3 cm x 13.6 cm)
According to the Office of Archaeological Studies Pottery Typology Project, "Pinedale Black-on-red and Pinedale Polychrome were defined by Haury and Hargrave (1931). These types reflect technological and stylistic changes reflected by many of the White Mountain Red Ware forms produced during late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. The Pinedale Black-on-red and Polychrome types most commonly occur at sites in areas just below the Mogollon Rim in Arizona."
Provenance: ex-private Southern California, USA collection, acquired prior to 2000
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Condition
Repaired and restored from over a dozen pieces. Visible break lines and chips and small losses along the fissures. Areas of infill with modern material to fill gaps and larger losses. Overpainting to interior motifs and traces of visible adhesive on exterior base. Old inventory labels on base. Great preservation and restoration to the motifs.