Published / Exhibited Anasazi Mogollon Bird Vessel TL'd

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Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic

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Oct 8, 2020

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• Lot Description
  North America, Southwest, Southeastern Arizona, Anasazi / Ancestral Pueblo, Greater Mogollon, Greater Salado, Upper Gila (Highland Salado), ca. 1300 to 1450 CE. A stunning and quite sizeable black-on-cream Gila Salado bird effigy vessel, hand-coiled and smoothed from a red clay. The overall form presents an ovoid avian body with high relief wings to either side, a 'feathered' tail protruding at the rear, and a stylized head rising from the front end. The vast majority of the surface is decorated with intricate design motifs: a checkerboard pattern with dotted squares perhaps representing 'eyes' adorning the bird's breast, wavy zigzags along the wings and lower body; triangular, step, and spiral motifs adorning the upper body; finally, frets on the tail and vessel rim. A beautiful example, so finely handbuilt and decorated! Size: 12.5" L x 10" W x 7" H (31.8 cm x 25.4 cm x 17.8 cm)
  
  There are three recognized styles of Salado polychrome pottery: Pinta, Gila, and Tonto. Gila vessels like this example were often decorated with complex designs, at times featuring stylized snakes, lizards, parrots, stars, the sun, and eyes. Many of these images also appear in petroglyphs. The Salado (Spanish for "salty") peoples migrated to the Salt River in Southeastern Arizona. They resided in the center of three major cultures of the Southwest of the time period: Anasazi to the North, Mogollon to the East and South, and the Hohokam to the West and Southwest.
  
  Published and Exhibited in "Ancient Origins: Southwestern Pottery, 600-1600 A.D. 85 Objects from the Drapkin Collection", R. Drapkin / Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 2002, page 87, fig. 75.
  
  This piece has been tested using thermoluminescence (TL) analysis and has been found to be ancient and of the period stated. A full report will accompany purchase.
  
  Provenance: ex-private Florida, USA collection, acquired in 1980s; ex-R. Drapkin collection. Published and Exhibited in "Ancient Origins: Southwestern Pottery, 600-1600 A.D. 85 Objects from the Drapkin Collection", R. Drapkin / Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 2002.
  
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  Condition

  Nicks to peripheries of head, beak, wings, rim and other high-pointed areas. Approximately half of the rim including the head was reattached with restoration over the break lines. Tail section was restored. Stabilized crack on underside. Pressure fissures on the base. Edges of wings were smoothed out with a bit of clay. All was executed quite well and the piece presents very nicely.
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