Description:

North America, Mississippian culture, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A commanding coil-built earthenware jar with an everted rim encircled by a dense band of punctate impressions that create a tactile, corrugated collar, the swollen ovoid body segmented by eight vertical appliqué fillets incised with diagonal notches for a melon-like, lobed silhouette. Smoothed and selectively burnished surfaces display variegated umber to charcoal hues with fire-clouding from low-oxygen firing.

Size: 9.5" D x 13.125" H (24.1 cm D x 33.3 cm H)

Provenance: ex-private Denver, Colorado, USA collection, ex Boulder, Colorado USA collection, ex New York, NY collection

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Item # 202286

  • Condition: Very Good. Two areas of rim restored else in very good condition.

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