Small Pueblo Native Pottery Bowl, Presumed Santo Domingo platter this great old handmade donkey

this great old handmade donkey

no more than what it needs to be and seemingly perfectly suited to go for a float--and I find that flat expanse of chocolate brown paint weirdly but truly satisfying

with a few very minor surface chips

I have long admired these sorts of tiles-- produced in the 18th and 19th century during the Qajar period in Persia--which very frequently feature hunters on horses like this one

They are stamped at the base of their sides with a prominent M (which led me to believe these might be the work of Warren McKenzie

Small Pueblo Native Pottery Bowl, Presumed Santo Domingo platter this great old handmade donkeyLittle but lovely, I believe this old Native American Pueblo bowl is most likely Santo Domingo, one of the largest of the northern pueblos, located between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Coil made, with super black hand painted design over cream slip, with the pattern repeated twice around the perimeter. I would think not older than the 1940s but am not an expert. 3 1 2" in diameter x 2" tall. There is one tiny chip on the interior of the lip, minor, and