Lot 100
Caddo Mississippian Effigy Pottery Bowl
Caddo Mississippian Effigy Pottery Bowl
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Native American, Caddo, Mississippian culture, ca. 1200–1450 CE. A warm terracotta-hued earthenware bowl shaped by Caddoan hands during the late prehistoric Mississippian florescence of the Trans-Mississippi South. The vessel rises from a rounded base into gently flaring walls, its slightly asymmetrical mouth crowned by a continuous band of finely incised diagonal hatching that runs the full circumference of the rim, evoking the stitched edge of a hide or the dorsal patterning of a living creature. Four modeled lugs project from the exterior just beneath the lip, two of which appear elongated and ridged, perhaps suggesting fins, paws, or limbs, while the opposing pair reads as smaller appendages or eyes. Together they hint at a zoomorphic conception, possibly a fish, frog, or turtle rendered in the spare, allusive idiom favored by Caddo potters, in which the vessel itself becomes the body of the animal. The surface retains its burnished red-brown tone, smoothed by hand and lightly mottled from open firing. Caddo communities of the Arkansas, Red, and Sabine River drainages produced such effigy bowls for both domestic and mortuary contexts, where they accompanied the dead as offerings or served at feasts marking the agricultural and ceremonial calendar. The animating instinct, to fuse utility with the vitality of the natural world, remains palpable in the quiet zoological wit of this small vessel.. 8.5" W x 3.8" H x 8.3" D (21.6 cm W x 9.7 cm H x 21.1 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 #
202957
- Condition: Good. Professionally repaired and restored; all done expertly and difficult to distinguish. Some nicks and abrasions commensurate with age. Otherwise, nice presentation with good remaining detail. Old collection label "DW 6944" on underside of base.
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