Native American, Southwestern United States, Colorado and Arizona, Anasazi / Ancestral Puebloan, Pueblo II, Mesa Verde type, ca. 900 to 1150 CE. An ovoid pottery bowl formed via the Puebloan coil-and-scrape technique with a round but stable base and gradually flaring walls. Within the white-ground basin is a tall ring of checkerboard patterning that encircles the undecorated center. Size: 7.125" L x 6.875" W x 3.3" H (18.1 cm x 17.5 cm x 8.4 cm)

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 - indeed at the Park, there is a large house containing 94 rooms, a kiva, and a water reservoir, known as Mug House because its European discoverers, Charles Mason and the Wetherill brothers, found three mugs hung in one of the rooms from a rope of woven yucca.

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Provenance: private Reinsmoen collection, Clear Lake, Iowa, USA, acquired through descent from Robert Anderson, acquired prior to 2000

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#185253

Professional repair and restoration, with resurfacing and overpainting along new material and break lines. Abrasions and fading to original pigment, with minor nicks and pitting, otherwise in nice condition. Good preservation to checkerboard motif.