Lot 68

Caddo Engraved Pottery Bowl - Scroll & Punctate Banded Carinated Vessel

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Caddo Engraved Pottery Bowl - Scroll & Punctate Banded Carinated Vessel
Caddo Engraved Pottery Bowl - Scroll & Punctate Banded Carinated Vessel
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Caddo Engraved Pottery Bowl - Scroll & Punctate Banded Carinated Vessel

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Starting Bid: $350

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by Artemis Fine Arts
August 6, 2026 9:00 AM MDT
Live Auction
686 S. Taylor Avenue
Suite 108
Louisville, CO, US 80027

Native American, Caddo, ca. 1300–1600 CE. A carinated earthenware bowl rising from a sharply angled lower body to flaring walls, its burnished surface carrying the muted browns and smoky grays of pit firing. Beneath the rim runs a register of fine engraved horizontal lines, while the carination is encircled by a band of incised scrolls punctuated with rows of small impressed dots, a rhythmic interplay of line and point characteristic of Caddo potters of the Trans-Mississippi South. Such vessels, crafted by coiling and finished by hand without the wheel, served both domestic and mortuary functions, the finer engraved wares often accompanying the dead. The controlled geometry of the decoration, likely evoking water serpents or cosmological motifs, reflects a sophisticated ceramic tradition centered in present-day Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. Size: 9.5" W x 5" H x 9.3" D (24.1 cm W x 12.7 cm H x 23.6 cm D).

The Caddo peoples occupied the region where Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma meet, building mound centers and sustaining a distinctive ceramic tradition from roughly 900 CE through European contact. Their engraved and incised fine wares, executed on highly burnished surfaces, rank among the most accomplished pottery of the North American Southeast. Decorative vocabularies such as scroll bands, hatched zones, and punctate fields carried meanings tied to cosmology and the supernatural, and specific named types (Hardy, Glassell, Ripley, and others) remain key chronological markers for archaeologists working the Caddo sequence.

Provenance: private Colorado, USA Collection; ex-private Denver, Colorado, USA collection; ex-private Flushing, New York and Ridgeway, Colorado, USA collection

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Item # 203016

  • Condition: Chipping and some small losses to rim as well as areas of repair with break lines visible. A few fissures in areas. Good remains of engraved decoration.

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$0 $299 $25
$300 $999 $50
$1,000 $1,999 $100
$2,000 $4,999 $250
$5,000 $9,999 $500
$10,000 $19,999 $1,000
$20,000 $49,999 $2,500
$50,000 $99,999 $5,000
$100,000 $199,999 $10,000
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