Native American, Southwestern United States, Arizona or New Mexico, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) / Mogollon culture, ca. 1175 to 1325 CE. A fabulous pottery bowl of hemispherical form with a rounded base and thin walls that swell upwards and then slightly inwards to a circular rim. The redware vessel is extensively decorated with the interior walls featuring black-painted, linear motifs with triangular shapes, zigzag designs, and parallel striations. Alternatively, the exterior displays 2 spiraling squares with central steppe pyramid motifs in black and white pigments. The interior basin presents a circle of bare terracotta. Size: 12.9" Diameter x 5.25" H (32.8 cm x 13.3 cm)

The pottery is formed with iron-rich clays using the coil and scrape technique. This type is primarily known from the Pinedale Ruin, a settlement of approximately 200 rooms located near modern-day Show Low, Arizona. The people who lived at Pinedale would have been at the edges of the cultural sphere governed by Chaco Canyon and, by the time they created this bowl, lived a sedentary agricultural lifestyle. A bowl like this one may have held ground corn.

According to the Office of Archaeological Studies Pottery Typology Project, "Pinedale Black-on-red and Pinedale Polychrome were defined by Haury and Hargrave (1931). These types reflect technological and stylistic changes reflected by many of the White Mountain Red Ware forms produced during late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. The Pinedale Black-on-red and Polychrome types most commonly occur at sites in areas just below the Mogollon Rim in Arizona."

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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#167249

Repaired from over 20 large pieces, with restoration to a few areas along walls and around base, infill material along some break lines, and resurfacing with adhesive residue along new material and break lines. Overpainting to motifs along some restored areas, and touch-up painting along some original areas. Nicks and abrasions to rim, walls, base, and basin surfaces, with light fading to original pigment, and a few small chips around rim. Nice preservation to original pigment. Old, illegible inventory label beneath base.