Native American, Southwestern United States, Eastern Arizona, Upper Little Colorado River Drainage, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi), Greater Salado, Upper Gila, ca. 1200 to 1350 CE. A lovely bowl of a hemispherical form with a round but stable base and a thick rim surrounding a deep basin. Formed via the traditional coil-and-scrape technique, the interior of the bowl is decorated with intricate linear, stepped, and geometric motifs in black on a brick red ground, and the surface is smoothed but not highly polished, characteristic of the Roosevelt redware style. Size: 7.75" Diameter x 3" H (19.7 cm x 7.6 cm)

Provenance: private New Jersey, USA collection, acquired December 22, 2008; ex-James R. Cunkle collection

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#172148

Repaired and restored. Infill and overpainting along break lines with visible hair line fissures on interior and exterior.