Small Undecorated Utilitarian Bowl [SOLD]

This small bowl almost has the feel of a stone metate or vessel for processing medication.  It is heavy in weight, appears to have been incised with lines over the entire exterior surface and painted with red pigment.  A single row of clay wraps around the vessel on the exterior.  It is so tempting to assign a function to it as possibly having been a paint jar or a medicine vessel, but there certainly is no way to do so.  It is what it was, whatever that might have been.

Condition: very good condition, with some unidentified residue on the interior.

Provenance: from the collection of Katherine H. Rust

Recommended Reading: Secrets of Casas Grandes, edited by Melissa S. Powell