Southwestern USA, east central Arizona/west southern New Mexico, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi)/Mogollon culture, ca. 1175 to 1325 CE. A lovely redware pottery bowl of hemispherical form presenting a rounded base and annular rim. Created by the first Anasazi potters to make polychrome pottery, the russet-hued vessel boasts a white-on-red exterior and a black-on-red interior. This specific form of Anasazi pottery is known as St. Johns Black-on-Red ware. It is essentially the equivalent of Tularosa Black-on-White that has been fired in an oxidizing atmosphere to achieve a red ground. The exterior has added decoration executed in white paint making for a rich and varying decorative program. The exterior is painted with a stepped pattern of nested triangles, all beginning at the rim and pointing down towards the base. Alternatively, the interior boasts a black ring encircling the center surrounded by intricate black and russet spiraling, stepped, as well as solid and undulating striations. Size: 7.25" in diameter x 3.125" H (18.4 cm x 7.9 cm)
Provenance: private New Jersey, USA collection, purchased in November of 2014; ex-Periser collection; ex-J. Hammond collection; found near Pie Town, New Mexico, USA
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Condition
Collection label on bottom, as well as the number 816 inscribed in black ink over a petite stripe of white paint. Some very minor areas of restoration on rim and in basin, which are barely distinguishable. Char marks to exterior. Some light nicks to rim and body with a minor chip to interior and a few abrasions to exterior. Otherwise, intact and excellent.