Native American, Southwestern USA, Colorado, Anasazi/Ancestral Puebloans, ca. 1200 to 1300 CE. An interesting and wonderfully preserved example of larger mug with a small lugged handle just below its rim on one side. The body is painted made in the Mesa Verde Black-on-White tradition from what is today southwestern Colorado, with two bands around it horizontally, each with cross-hatching and diamond shapes that call to mind the dramatic southwestern landscape. Size: 4" W x 4.25" H (10.2 cm x 10.8 cm)
Vessels like this one were made from a gray or white paste with angular fragments of temper and this one has a pearly gray-white slip that was then overpainted with a black pigment made from carbon. They were made by people who lived in cliff dwellings like those seen at Mesa Verde National Park - indeed at the Park, there is a large house containing 94 rooms, a kiva, and a water reservoir, known as Mug House because its European discoverers, Charles Mason and the Wetherill brothers, found three mugs hung in one of the rooms from a rope of woven yucca.
Provenance: ex-Joan Shaw collection, bought in 1971; loaned to the Mesa Verde Museum, 1962-1970; ex-Bill Mitchell collection, Cortez, Colorado, USA, acquired from 1958 to 1962
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Condition
Intact, with a few tiny nicks and scratches commensurate with age. Nice deposits on surface with a firing mark and well preserved pigment. Old collection number on underside.