Native American, Southwestern United States, Four Corners region, New Mexico, Chaco Canyon area, Pueblo I/II (Anasazi) period, ca. 900 to 1030 CE. A deep, steep-sided bowl with a corrugated exterior and painted black-on-white interior, made in the style that is most-commonly excavated at the great Anasazi city of Chaco Canyon: Red Mesa Black-on-White. The exterior is decorated with the characteristically overlapping layers that give it a corrugated texture while the interior is painted with a motif of repeated spiky curves suggestive of caterpillars. Size: 7.95" W x 4.25" H (20.2 cm x 10.8 cm)

Provenance: private Orange County, California, USA collection acquired in July 2019; ex-Artemis Gallery; ex-Joan Shaw collection, purchased in 1971; loaned to the Mesa Verde Museum, 1962 to 1970; ex-Bill Mitchell collection, Cortez, Colorado, USA, from 1958 to 1962

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#156602

Repaired from four or five large pieces, Nice preservation of motifs with some craquelure to the pigment and no overpaint. Old collection number on base.