Polychrome Dough Bowl [SOLD]

An extraordinarily beautiful dough bowl from Zia Pueblo created most probably in the 1880-1890s. The rolled out rim and the wide red band below the lower framing lines are indicative of this time period.

This fine piece is coil-formed in native clay with the addition of crushed basaltic temper. The underbody is stone-polished bare paste in a warm brick red color. A wide red band was wiped on as a dividing line between the bare paste underbody and the decorated upper body.

The design field is slipped in a creamy white slip on which is prominently displayed a traditional Zia design of a sinusoidal black wave interspersed with cloud elements in red.

This bowl was delivered to us directly from the pueblo where it, along with another one (illustrated as #24530, click here to view now), was used as a lampshade. A hole was drilled in the bottom and has now been professionally corrected.

This is one of the finest Zia bowls we have had the pleasure of acquiring.