Lot 90B
Two Mississippian Caddo Grayware Pottery Vessels
Two Mississippian Caddo Grayware Pottery Vessels
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Native American, Southeastern United States, Arkansas, Mississippian-Caddo culture, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A pair of shell-tempered grayware ceramic vessels, each decorated with punctate patterning. The larger featuring a stippled band encircling a footed base, while the smaller, a globular jar, bears four human faces rendered in low relief with incised eyes and mouths oriented toward the cardinal directions, a motif strongly associated with Caddo cosmological belief. Size of largest: 5.5" W x 7.75" H (14 cm x 19.7 cm)
Provenance: ex-private Colorado, USA collection; ex-private Denver, Colorado, USA collection acquired from Jackson's International Auctioneers and Appraisers, Iowa, USA, in 2015.
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Item #
202290
- Condition: Faces pot has a perforation through the bottom. Larger pot ahs a hairline fissure on the exterior that radiates to the interior, chips to rim. Earthen deposits inside. Both have old inventory labels on the base and numbers written on the surface.
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