Southwestern USA, east central Arizona/west southern New Mexico, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi), ca. 1275 to 1325 CE. A really fantastic bowl with bright colors that pop, created by artisans from the Mogollon Pinedale Black-on-Red Polychrome tradition. The exterior lacks motifs, while the interior has symmetrical, geometric patterns - two large circles opposite each other, each one containing a wide "Z"; opposite these are shapes that resemble tunics, set inside stepped borders. Size: 5.8" W x 2.8" H (14.7 cm x 7.1 cm)

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, that was sadly lost to bulldozers in the 1970s. 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.

Provenance: private Ventura County, California, USA collection

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#126887

Repaired on one side; chip from rim. Excellent preserved motifs.