Kewa Pueblo Large Chile Serving Bowl [SOLD]

This bowl is a little larger than most chile bowls and a little smaller than normal serving bowls, so it falls between the two.  The interior and exterior are slipped in traditional Kewa Pueblo cream slip with the lower portion of the exterior being in red slip.  The black triangular designs are laid in sections of four, back-to-back and top-to-bottom.

The bowl was used at the pueblo in the past.  The initials M. C. are scratched into the bottom of the bowl and were painted on the exterior cream ship near the rim but these latter ones have been scrapped off by someone who apparently objected to seeing them on the bowl.  The initials were originally placed on the bowl to identify it as belonging to the person with those initials, which would have been sufficient because everyone in the pueblo would have known who that was.

Condition: very good condition with slip crack on the interior cream slip but do not penetrate the bowl.

Recommended Reading: A River Apart – The Pottery of Cochiti & Santo Domingo Pueblos, edited by Valerie K. Verzuh

Provenance: from the extensive collection of a Santa Fe resident who is unfortunately moving to another city and found it necessary to greatly reduce her collection.