Native American, Southwestern United States, New Mexico, Aztec Ruins region, Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan), Chaco style, ca. 975 to 1150 CE. A lovely pottery pitcher with a round but stable base, a piriform body with a carinated midsection, a tapered neck with a thick rim, and a narrow handle arching between rim and midsection. The white-slipped body features a register of slanted linear motifs along the midsection as well as two columns of broad serrations tracing up the neck. Size: 3.75" W x 4.7" H (9.5 cm x 11.9 cm)

Provenance: private Iowa, USA collection; ex-Robert R. Anderson collection, purchased from a private collector who said it was collected prior to 1905 near Aztec Ruins, New Mexico

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Minor nicks and abrasions to rim, handle, body, and base, with fading and fire-darkening to areas of original pigmentation, and light encrustations within body, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits and great traces of original pigment throughout.