**First Time At Auction**

Native American, Southwestern United States, Colorado and Arizona, Anasazi / Ancestral Puebloan, Pueblo II, ca. 900 to 1150 CE. A remarkable, hand-built pottery mug presenting a tapering cylinder form with a circular rim and a vertical, strap handle, all sitting upon a flat base. Adorned with black-on-white decoration, the exterior of the vessel boasts an elaborate design of a repeated rhomboid pattern with each lozenge embellished by striated, dotted, or geometric motifs. A striped pattern additionally adorns the rim. Size: 3.5" W x 3.5" H (8.9 cm x 8.9 cm)

Vessels from this tradition were made from a gray or white clay with angular fragments of temper and this one has a pearly gray-white slip that was then overpainted with a black pigment made from carbon. Largely, these were made by women who lived in cliff dwellings like those seen at Mesa Verde National Park - indeed at the Park, there is a large house containing 94 rooms, a kiva, and a water reservoir, known as Mug House because its European discoverers, Charles Mason and the Wetherill brothers, found three mugs hung in one of the rooms from a rope of woven yucca.

Native American / STOP act: Please note this item falls under the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act and is not eligible for international shipping. Native American, Alaska Native, & Native Hawaiian objects are only eligible to ship within the United States.

Provenance: private Dublin, California, USA collection

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#180758

Handle is restored as is most of the "V" shaped section outlined in the black decoration at area of handle