Description:

Native American / Pre-Columbian, Southwestern United States & Northern Mexico, ca. 14th to 20th century CE. A fine group of three pieces including: a miniature highly burnished blackware pot with dimpled sides, signed on the base "Reycita / Santa Clara" though the precise maker remains uncertain given several noted potters of that name; a Native American or Pre-Columbian stone celt, heavily polished with a tapered blade likely employed for woodworking; and a larger Casas Grandes polychrome pottery bowl, identified by an old label as a Villa Ahumada type. Size of Casas Grandes pot: 3.75" W x 2" H (9.5 cm x 5.1 cm)

Provenance: private Fort Collins, Colorado, USA collection

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#196254

  • Condition: Scuffs to Santa Clara pottery, but otherwise intact and signed. Celt is highly polished with chips to blade tip. Stable hairline fissure on the Casas Grandes bowl, but otherwise intact and excellent.

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