Native American, Southwestern United States, Four Corners region, New Mexico, Chaco Canyon area, Pueblo I/II (Anasazi) period, ca. 900 to 1030 CE. A beautiful pottery pitcher of a substantial form with a rounded base, a carinated lower body with a tapered shoulder, a cylindrical neck, and a strap handle on the verso. The white-hued vessel is decorated with vertical bands of black-painted geometric and lightning motifs along the exterior surfaces, and the handle exhibits a minimalist double-diamond pattern on the convex surface. The Red Mesa Black-on-White pottery style is most famously excavated at the great Anasazi city of Chaco Canyon. Size: 6" W x 7.375" H (15.2 cm x 18.7 cm)

Provenance: private S.S. collection, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Professionally repaired from perhaps 6 to 8 pieces with minor restoration over the breaks.