Native American, Southwestern United States, Arizona or New Mexico, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi), ca. 1275 to 1325 CE. A gorgeous Pinedale black-on-red terracotta bowl with a rounded but stable base and walls that flare outward to a wide mouth. The decoration on the bowl's interior includes linear and checkerboard patterns within triangular formations that meet in the center. Exhibiting a wonderful brick-red hue with smooth, highly burnished surfaces, this polychrome vessel is a lovely utilitarian example! The Mogollon people created pottery from iron-rich volcanic clays using the coil-and-scrape technique. The type is known primarily from the Pinedale Ruin, a settlement of approximately 200 rooms located near modern-day Show Low, Arizona. Size: 11.5" Diameter x 5.125" H (29.2 cm x 13 cm)

Published in Ancient Origins; American Southwestern Pottery A.D. 600-1600 in 2002 by the Museum of Fine Arts

Provenance: private Lake City, Colorado, USA collection acquired 2020; ex-Arte Primitivo; ex-private Florida, USA collection; ex-Gene Lang collection acquired April 2000

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Professionally repaired from many pieces. Three larger areas of restoration and overpainting. Infill to gaps and overpainting along break lines. Repairs are well done. Chip to rim of bowl. Excellent motifs and burnishing marks. Old inventory label on base.