Mississippian Bell Plain Bowl | Haynes Bluff Notched Rim

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Native American, Mississippian culture, ca. 1200–1500 CE. A large hemispherical bowl of shell-tempered clay, its walls rising from a rounded base to a sharply everted rim, the dark grey surfaces burnished inside and out to the smooth, slightly lustrous finish that defines Bell Plain ware. The lip is the prize: deeply notched with long slanting grooves that read, at a glance, as a length of twisted cord laid around the mouth, with a beveled interior edge behind it. This treatment is the Haynes Bluff rim mode, considerably scarcer than the plain lips that finish most Bell Plain bowls. Vessels of this scale served communal food preparation and presentation, and comparable examples recur in mortuary deposits, so a funerary role for this piece is possible though not demonstrable. Size: 4.1" H x 10" Diam (10.4 cm H x 25.4 cm Diam). Bell Plain is one of the workhorse ceramic types of the Mississippian world, defined by a fine, finely crushed shell temper and thoroughly smoothed surfaces, usually firing to grey or grey-brown. It appears across the Mississippian sequence but reaches its greatest frequency in the Middle and Late phases, when it dominated household assemblages of the central Mississippi Valley. Bowls are the single most common Bell Plain form, which makes the rim treatment here the distinguishing feature rather than the vessel shape. The Haynes Bluff mode, named for the Mississippi site where it was first isolated, is a decorative grammar rather than a separate ware: the rim flares abruptly from a rounded lip, the interior face is beveled and often terraced or incised, and the lip itself is cut with deep, oblique notches. The visual result, a rope or cable encircling the vessel mouth, translates a cordage motif into clay, and its comparative rarity within the enormous Bell Plain corpus makes rimmed examples of this kind sought after by collectors of Southeastern ceramics. SHIPPING: We coordinate worldwide shipping in-house through specialist international forwarders experienced with fine art and antiquities customs manifests. International buyers must confirm, prior to bidding, that their country's customs authority will accept the item. All duties, taxes, clearance fees, and any costs arising from customs delays, seizures, re-export, returns, or loss in transit are the buyer's sole responsibility. Artemis assumes no liability for items refused entry, detained, or lost after export. We cannot ship ancient items to their country of origin (Egyptian to Egypt, Greek to Greece, etc.).For those not using LiveAuctioneers' Live Ship program, Artemis Fine Arts offers expert in-house packing and worldwide shipping. With over 20 years of experience, our team provides careful, reliable, and affordable service. For a quick quote on this lot, please contact support@artemisfinearts.com prior to the auction, or call 720-890-7700. PAYMENT EXCEPTION: For clients not previously established with Artemis, payment for all gold, precious metal, and gemstone lots must be made by bank wire transfer or certified bank check/money order, without exception. Item #203158

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