Native American, Southwestern United States, Four Corners region, Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan), ca. 1075 to 1250 CE. A white-ground bowl formed via the coil-and-scrape technique with a round but stable base, tall walls, a thin rim, and a deep basin. Surrounding the basin interior is a black-painted decorative program consisting of alternating columns of vertical stripes and oscillating triangular serrations, all underlined by a single black ring. Size: 6.9" W x 3.3" H (17.5 cm x 8.4 cm)
Provenance: private South Carolina, USA collection; ex-Artemis Gallery, Louisville, Colorado, USA, August 22nd, 2019, lot 130; ex-Joan Shaw collection, bought in 1971; loaned to the Mesa Verde Museum, Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA, accession number 591, catalogue number 8505, 1962 to 1970; ex-Bill Mitchell collection, Cortez, Colorado, USA, acquired from 1958 to 1962
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Condition
Repaired with restoration. Loss to areas of rim and interior walls. Abrasions and fading to pigment commensurate with age. Nice preservation to decorative motifs. Old collection number handwritten beneath base.