Native American, Southwestern United States, Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan), ca. 1075 to 1250 CE. A hand-built pottery pitcher of a sizable form with a stable base, a piriform body with a tapered shoulder, a thin rim surrounding a deep basin, and an applied strap handle. The upper body of the white-slipped vessel features two registers of negative-resist trapezoids within black bands, and the lower body is unadorned. Size: 5.625" W x 6.6" H (14.3 cm x 16.8 cm)

Provenance: private South Carolina, USA collection; ex-Artemis Gallery, Louisville, Colorado, USA, September 5th, 2019, lot 150; ex-Joan Shaw collection, bought in 1971; loaned to the Mesa Verde Museum, Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA, accession number 591, catalogue number 8462, 1962 to 1970; ex-Bill Mitchell collection, Cortez, Colorado, USA, acquired from 1958 to 1962

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#171441

Repaired from multiple large pieces, with small chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Losses to areas of rim and shoulder as shown. Chips and abrasions to rim, handle, body, and base, with fading to original pigmentation. Nice earthen deposits throughout. Old inventory number written in black ink beneath base.