Polychrome Lizard Jar
Priscilla Peynetsa
- Savvy Price $385.00
- Gallery Price $500.00
- Title
- Polychrome Lizard Jar
- Artist
- Priscilla Peynetsa
- Medium
- Hand-formed pottery, polychrome
- Size
- 5" height X 7" maximum diameter
- Signed
- "P. Peynetsa Zuni, N.M." on bottom
- Date of creation
- Circa 1985
- Condition
- Excellent
- About The Polychrome Lizard Jar
This jar's decoration calls into play traditional Zuni design elements: heartline deer, diagonal hatching, curvilinear references to water against a white slip background.
- About Priscilla Peynetsa
(Born 1961, Zuni Pueblo) Active making pottery from 1980, Priscilla is known for her black on orangeware, polychrome jars, bowls, effigy pots, clay pipes, frogs and pottery necklaces.
Sister of two well known Peynetsa potters, Agnes and Anderson, Priscilla's work is in the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff.
Every book covering 20th century Zuni pottery cites her work.
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