Native American, Southwestern United States, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi), Mesa Verde type, ca. 1200 to 1350 CE. A sizable olla of carinated form shaped from pottery via the coil-and-scrape technique. The vessel exhibits a round but stable form with a sloping shoulder and a squat neck, and across the white surfaces are black linear bands that form intriguing zigzagging, circular, spiraling, and triangular forms. Vessels from this tradition were made from a gray or white clay with angular fragments of temper and this one has a pearly gray-white slip that was then overpainted with a black pigment made from carbon. Largely, these were made by women who lived in cliff dwellings like those seen at Mesa Verde National Park. Size: 15" Diameter x 16" H (38.1 cm x 40.6 cm)

Provenance: private Capistrano, California, USA collection, acquired before 2010

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#179522

Repaired with restoration as shown, and with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Abrasions and fading to exterior pigment, with light earthen deposits, and rough surface texture in scattered areas. Nice preservation to original decorative style.