Native American, Southwestern United States, Colorado, Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan), Mesa Verde type, ca. 1200 to 1300 CE. A fine example of a bowl made in the Mesa Verde Black-on-White tradition in what is today southwestern Colorado. The bowl has steeply sloping sides with black lines of varying length creating triangular motifs around the interior sides that resemble dripping pitch. Size: 5.9" W x 2.5" H (15 cm x 6.4 cm)

Provenance: private South Carolina, USA collection; ex-Artemis Gallery, Louisville, Colorado, USA, August 22nd, 2019, lot 137; ex-Joan Shaw collection, bought in 1971; loaned to the Mesa Verde Museum, Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA, accession number 591, catalogue number 8502, 1962 to 1970; ex-Bill Mitchell collection, Cortez, Colorado, USA, acquired from 1958 to 1962

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Repaired/restored in the base. This is well done and almost impossible to see. Old collection number handwritten on the underside. All of the black pigment is original.