Square Mouthed Jar with Tapering Neck
Alice Cling
- Savvy Price $125.00
- Gallery Price $175.00
- Title
- Square Mouthed Jar with Tapering Neck
- Artist
- Alice Cling
- Medium
- Hand-coiled pottery coated with pinon pitch
- Size
- 5 1/4" height X maximum diameter of 4 5/8"
- Signed
- "Alice Cling" inscribed on bottom
- Date of creation
- Circa 2005
- Condition
- Good, not excellent due to 2 surface irregularities in pinon pitch
- About The Square Mouthed Jar with Tapering Neck
The surface of Navajo pottery can be utterly seductive, resembling highly polished wood.
- About Alice Cling
Alice Cling was born about 1946 in a hogan near Kayenta on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. She learned pottery from her mother, Rose Williams, who is renowned for her innovative Navajo pottery.
Alice Cling is featured in Pottery by American Indian Women by Susan Peterson, Treasures of the Navajo by Theda Bassman, Enduring Traditions by Lois Essary Jacka and Southwestern Pottery by Allan Hayes and John Blom.
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