Homolovi pottery comes from only two sites near Winslow Arizona and is one of the important types that bridged the gap from Anasazi to Hopi pottery. The area was popular for cotton farming, as evidenced by the weaving looms, spindle whorls and massive amounts of cottonseed that have been found at the ruins. The nearby Little Colorado River provided water for the inhabitants, the cotton and their other crops. The site was along the prehistoric Palatkwapi Trail, which ran from Montezuma Castle to the Hopi mesas. Trading of cotton, pottery and parrots was common between the many prehistoric sites in northern Arizona. At the peak, it is estimated, 5,000 people lived at Homolovi. Homolovi II, the largest of the four pueblos, it had three plazas and stone walls rising two to three stories, and housed several thousand people. In the 1400s, the area was abandoned, just as were many other Southwest ruins.

This wonderful bowl is in perfect condition measuring 8 5/8 inches by 3 inches while exhibiting a classic Homolovi design in black on a deep orange-red clay body. Pieces from the Homolovi tradition are very scarce and down-right rare when in perfect mint condition.

EX. Bill Freeman purchased in the 1970's.

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The bowl is intact with to very minor rim cracks, no chips.

EX. Mina Brooks Collection

Offered is a beautiful Showlow olla measuring 7.2" wide and 5" tall. The is one piece broken out of the rim which has been reattached. It is so well done that it was represented as mint and I believed it to be mint when I purchased it. The orange-red slip is accented with a bold glazed black paint with bright white lines which defines the type.

Homolovi pottery comes from only two sites near Winslow Arizona and is one of the important types that bridged the gap from Anasazi to Hopi pottery. The area was popular for cotton farming, as evidenced by the weaving looms, spindle whorls and massive amounts of cottonseed that have been found at the ruins. The nearby Little Colorado River provided water for the inhabitants, the cotton and their other crops. The site was along the prehistoric Palatkwapi Trail, which ran from Montezuma Castle to the Hopi mesas. Trading of cotton, pottery and parrots was common between the many prehistoric sites in northern Arizona. At the peak, it is estimated, 5,000 people lived at Homolovi. Homolovi II, the largest of the four pueblos, it had three plazas and stone walls rising two to three stories, and housed several thousand people. In the 1400s, the area was abandoned, just as were many other Southwest ruins.

We recently acquired acquired this beautiful and important bowl in a small estate auction back east. It must have been an item that someone had acquired on a trip out west. The bowl is in absolute pristine condition with not a single flaw; it measures 11.25 inches wide and 4.75 inches deep.

This is a wonderful Tanque Verde bowl (C. 1100 - 1200AD) measuring a full 11" in diameter and 7" deep. It has bold paint against a cream background encompassing all of the exterior and extending into the interior. It is intact with a small pressure crack in the bottom which cannot be seen from the exterior. This item was discovered by Dr. Raymond Thomas of Phoenix Arizona and has no restoration of any kind. A very rare piece. This item was discovered by Dr. Ray Thomas on private land in the early 1980's.

This rare bowl was in my collection from 1996 to 2003. Because of the exceptional condition we recently repurchased the bowl as we do with so many of the pieces we sell.

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This is a wonderful Mimbres (C. 1100AD) geometric bowl that measures 12 inches wide and about 5.5 inches deep. At the reduced price it is an excellent value! The design is beautifully executed with bold dark designs and the bowl does not have a kill hole. The previous owner purchased the bowl several years back at a Butterfields auction and had it taken apart and re-glued and some of the interior cracks filled for aesthetic purposes. It is assembled from just a few pieces and has no areas of plaster or over-paint.

The bowl offered here (11.25" x 6.2") is pictured and described in Barbara Moulard’s epic book “Within the Underworld Sky”, Twelvetrees Press, 1981, Plate 98, p. 150 and I quote “The large rounded Gila Polychrome, with its low shoulder and flair rim, is a classic form of Salado ceramics. The exterior is covered in red paint and the interior slipped in white. Although the Gila painting style has little in common with the Mimbres Black-on-white tradition, being more akin to pre-Hopi, Anasazi pottery painting, the shape of the vessel and the design layout have a precedent in Mimbres flare-rim painted vessels.

The structural areas of the bowl’s interior have separate decorative elements: a negative diamond band circles the rim and a broad broken “life line” band inscribes the complex interior composition in the center of the bowl. The composition is divided by opposing chevrons and filled with a sampler of Salado rectilinear patterning. The central focus of the painting is the pair of solid black, opposing parrot motifs which are pendant to the chevrons. They form an hourglass configuration in the center of the bowl. The parrot may have been a symbol which was associated with sun cults. The hourglass motif, as well as the cross, may have had similar connotations, with the cross representing the annual path of the sun. Both the parrot and the sun may have also been sky and underworld symbols. Like many other prehistoric Southwest decorated ceramics, this bowl probably functioned on both a utilitarian and sacred level.”

This wonderful Showlow Polychrome bowl C. 1325 - 1375AD measures 9.5 inches in diameter and 4.5" deep, is glued from about 12 pieces. The pieces were basically fresh breaks which went together very tightly making the cracks difficult to see. The white is brilliant and the black is bold and some places well glazed.

The Showlow Polychrome type is defined with a normal "Four Mile like" exterior and the interior is executed with only black and white. White paint on the Arizona Polychromes is almost always exfoliated due to moisture in the ground and therefore most examples known have the paint enhanced in a restoration process. The black design on the interior is exceptionally well done and too is out of the ordinary. Examples which have retained all of the original white on the interior and exterior, like this bowl, are extremely rare and highly sought after by the advanced collectors.

This exceptional olla measures 16" x 13" and is simply re-glued, no addition of plaster or paint. The olla was discovered in the summer of 1998 on a private ranch in northeast Arizona. The Tularosa banded design is exceptionally well done and the paint is bold and black.

Broken and glued with about 17% restoration. From the collection of Chris Robinson assembled in the late 1970's.

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