Lot 103
Caddo Incised Punctated Pottery Jar
Caddo Incised Punctated Pottery Jar
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Native American, Caddo, ca. 1200–1500 CE. A deep, beaker-form earthenware jar rising from a softly rounded base to a slightly inverted rim, its upper register banded with a frieze of incised and punctated ornament. Alternating panels of vertical and diagonal parallel lines frame fields of densely tooled punctations, the small teardrop impressions catching shadow against the burnished clay. The lower body is left plain, smoothed to a warm buff and mottled tan surface where fire clouds drift like weather across the vessel's flank, a quiet counterpoint to the busy collar above. Hand-built by coiling, then scraped and burnished before firing in an open or reduced atmosphere, the jar belongs to the ceramic traditions of the Caddo peoples of the Trans-Mississippi South, whose villages and mound centers flourished across what is now eastern Texas, southwestern Arkansas, northwestern Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma. Utility wares of this character, sometimes grouped under types such as Pennington Punctated-Incised or related Caddo wares, served as cooking and storage vessels in domestic contexts, though comparable forms also accompanied the dead in mortuary settings. The disciplined geometry of the rim band, achieved with a fine stylus and a reed or sharpened point, speaks to a potter's vocabulary in which order and rhythm carry their own quiet authority.. 7.5" W x 8" H x 7" D (19.1 cm W x 20.3 cm H x 17.8 cm D).
Provenance: private Colorado, USA Collection; ex-private Denver, Colorado, USA collection; ex-private Flushing, New York and Ridgeway, Colorado, USA collection
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Item #
203018
- Condition: Good. Professionally repaired with resurfacing over some break lines while others remain visible. A fews stable stress fissures, but, otherwise, nice presentation with good remaining decoration.
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