Cochiti Pueblo Polychrome Dough Bowl [SOLD]

This is a very large and superb dough bowl from Cochiti Pueblo that dates to late 19^th century. It is typically Cochiti in all technical aspects: crystalline-rock temper in the paste, stone-polished, bare-paste underbody with red banding, black rim top with red interior, rag-wiped bentonite slip and black vegetal paints. Even without the specifics of construction and materials, this vessel is positively identifiable as the Cochiti variety of Kiua polychrome.

There are four elaborate decorative elements-two pairs of designs that are opposite each other.  A double framing line at the rim and another double framing line near the bottom have ceremonial line breaks.  The interior is stone-polished red slip devoid of decoration.

Condition: There was a short lateral crack extending partly around the bowl that has been professionally stabilized.