Bowl with Interior Decoration

Cochiti Pueblo

Bowl with Interior Decoration, Pottery by   Cochiti Pueblo
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Item On Hold
Savvy Price $55.00
Gallery Price $80.00
Title
Bowl with Interior Decoration
Artist
Cochiti Pueblo
Medium
Hand-coiled pottery with applied slip, black on white
Size
2 1/8" height X 4 3/4" diameter
Signed
"Cooka" is written in graphite underneath
Date of creation
Circa 1960
Condition
Excellent
Provenance
Consigned by an East valley collector CS
About The Bowl with Interior Decoration

Nine petals in negative design on this Cochiti bowl's interior.  Above a framing line in black is painted against the white slip. A thicker line defines the bowl's rim with a deliberate interruption serving as the bowl's spirit line.

Written in graphite underneath is the bowl's original price roughly 40 years ago, $1.75.

About Cochiti Pueblo
The potters of Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico have a tradition of creating whimsical figurines of animals, birds and people. From this longstanding tradition sprang a new tradition of storytellers, beginning in the 1960s.
Cultures

American Indian

Medium

Pottery

Subject

Keywords

Cochiti, Cochiti pottery, Cochiti bowl