Casas Grandes Ramos Polychrome Olla

Pre-Columbian, Northern Mexico, Casas Grandes (Paquime) culture, Ramos Polychrome type, ca. 1060 to 1340 CE. A hand-built pottery jar of spherical form that displays wondrous bands of checkerboard patterns - perhaps representing corn - and abstract curvilinear motifs surrounded by solid black and red triangular spaces. The most exceptional Casas Grandes vessels are of the Ramos Polychrome type which required great skill and aesthetic vision. Size: 8" Diameter x 7.5" H (20.3 cm x 19 cm)

Provenance: private Reinsmoen collection, Clear Lake, Iowa, USA, acquired through descent from Robert Anderson, acquired prior to 2000

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#184632
Condition Report: Choice. Nice manganese deposits on the interior. Intact with no discernable restoration.