Polychrome Pottery Jar
Acoma Pueblo
- Marked Down $125.00
- Gallery Price $200.00
- Title
- Polychrome Pottery Jar
- Artist
- Acoma Pueblo
- Medium
- Hand-coiled polychrome pottery
- Size
- 5" height X 8" maximum diameter
- Signed
- No
- Date of creation
- Circa 1955
- Condition
- Excellent to good, due to 3 limestone pops on outer surface
- Provenance
- Ro Du
- About The Polychrome Pottery Jar
The artist dug the clay, added temper, made it pliable with the addition of water. A puka helped form the bottom to which coils of clay were mounted. Its design was conceived to harmonize with the shape of the jar.
All without identification of the maker.
- About Acoma Pueblo
- High atop the sheer sided 350-foot high Sky City in New Mexico, potters produce renowned Acoma pottery with thin walls, decorated with exquisite fine line work as well as curvilinear pictographic polychrome designs.
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