Featured in this lot is this Anasazi/ Mogollan Pinedale polychrome bowl circa 1100 - 1200 A.D. The bowl features a wonderfully and professionally crafted ceramic construction that shows polychrome coloration with black and why natural dyes on red painted ceramic. This bowl is from the Southwestern USA, east central Arizona and west southern New Mexico and from the Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) and shows work that was created by artisans from the Mogollan Pinedale tradition. The inside is decorated with a lizard with geometric patterns with stepped decoration inside of a triangle. The Anasazi tribe were just one group of Ancestral Puebloan people living during this period, and they shared both roots and key cultural elements with several of the other groups which lived in the region. Anasazi culture is famous for the stone dwellings which the ancestral Puebloan people built into cliff walls. The condition of this Anasazi/ Mogollon polychrome bowl is preserved for its age with some repair work done to the frame of the bowl but otherwise shows preserved overall condition. The measurements of this bowl is 2 5/8" x 6 3/4" x 6 3/4". The collective weight of this bowl is 12oz. Provenance: This bowl was listed in in the Du Mouchelles Auction in May of 1991.