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<p>[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 10219493, member: 76316"]This is 7 1/2" major diameter, 3 1/2" rim diameter, 3 3/4" high, the bottom is flat out to about 5" diameter; weight is ~2 lb.</p><p>I was first attracted to it for the odd number of stairway peaks; 11 above, an 17 beneath...odd divisions of a circle is one of my peculiar fetishes. The stain in pics 2,3,4,5 & 6 were on it when I acquired the pot, for very little money, in Bishop, California in the mid 1990's. I don't think I've shown it here previously.</p><p>NA pottery, especially Navajo, often have functionally-named shapes (wedding vase, seed pot, etc.), but I cannot find one that matches this pot. Your help will be most gratefully welcomed...Thanks for lookin'!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]510742[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]510743[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]510744[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]510745[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]510746[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]510747[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 10219493, member: 76316"]This is 7 1/2" major diameter, 3 1/2" rim diameter, 3 3/4" high, the bottom is flat out to about 5" diameter; weight is ~2 lb. I was first attracted to it for the odd number of stairway peaks; 11 above, an 17 beneath...odd divisions of a circle is one of my peculiar fetishes. The stain in pics 2,3,4,5 & 6 were on it when I acquired the pot, for very little money, in Bishop, California in the mid 1990's. I don't think I've shown it here previously. NA pottery, especially Navajo, often have functionally-named shapes (wedding vase, seed pot, etc.), but I cannot find one that matches this pot. Your help will be most gratefully welcomed...Thanks for lookin'! [ATTACH=full]510742[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]510743[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]510744[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]510745[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]510746[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]510747[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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