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Native American, Southwestern United States, Mesa Verde region, Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan), ca. 900 to 1300 CE. A pottery bowl formed via the coil-and-scrape technique bearing an elaborate register of black-painted geometric motifs around the interior walls. Decorating the center of the basin is a petite frog with extended arms, a delineated phallus, and a diamond-shaped head. Size: 7.125" Diameter x 3.4" H (18.1 cm x 8.6 cm)

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Provenance: private Dublin, California, USA collection

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#180755

A few stable fissures along rim and within basin, with abrasions and expected fading to black pigment, and light earthen deposits, otherwise intact and very good. Nice preservation to geometric motifs and frog.