Native American, Southwestern United States, Arizona, Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan), Four-Mile type, ca. 1325 to 1400 CE. A gorgeous pottery bowl with a rounded base and circular, inward-curved rim, formed via the coil and scrape method. As is traditional of Four-Mile style pottery of the Anasazi people, this lovely vessel boasts decor of black and white slip on a red slip ground. The exterior is adorned with a central register of horizontal and vertical striations in white flanked by 2 solid bands of black. The interior is decorated with a black and white border encompassing the rim and a geometric motif of spiral, triangular, rectangular, and stepped forms. This type of pottery production was concentrated in the Sierra Ancha, below the Mogollon Rim in present-day Arizona. Size: 8.5" in diameter x 3.7" H (21.6 cm x 9.4 cm)
Provenance: ex-private Southern California, USA collection, started in 1969; ex-Dr. John Hilsabeck estate, Orange County, California, USA, collected from the 1960s to 1980s
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Condition
Repaired from several pieces with break lines visible and some minor losses along break lines. Chips to rim. Some light abrasions and nicks throughout. Otherwise, excellent with nice remaining pigments.