Two Mississippian Caddo Pottery Vessels (Auction 2026-06-05, Lot 91)

$449.75

Native American, Southeastern United States, Mississippian, Caddo culture, ca. 900 to 1600 CE. A pair of Caddo pottery vessels comprising a substantial globular cooking or storage jar with paired loop handles and a smoke-darkened exterior surface bearing the marks of active use, accompanied by a smaller burnished bowl decorated at the shoulder with incised horizontal lines and pendant hatched triangles in the refined geometric vocabulary characteristic of Caddo ceramic tradition. Size of larger: 7.8″ Diameter x 5.7″ H (19.8 cm x 14.5 cm)

Provenance: private Colorado, USA Collection; ex-private Denver, Colorado, USA collection; ex-private New York, USA collection; more petite was found in Sevier County, Arkansas, USA

Condition: Good. Larger has been repaired from several pieces with chipping, adhesive, and infill along visible break lines. Both have weathering to surfaces with nicks and abrasions to larger. More petite vessel is intact and excellent. Scattered earthen deposits to both.