Two-Tone Pottery Jar with Mesquite Sap Design
Vesta Bread
- Savvy Price $750.00
- Gallery Price $900.00
- Title
- Two-Tone Pottery Jar with Mesquite Sap Design
- Artist
- Vesta Bread
- Medium
- Paddle and anvil formed pottery. Stone burnished red oxide slip, painted with mesquite sap and pit fired.
- Size
- 8" height X 9" maximum diameter
- Signed
- "Vesta Bread" is written underneath
- Condition
- Excellent to very good. One 1/4" vertical scratch on exterior.
- Provenance
- ST Tennessee art collector
- About The Two-Tone Pottery Jar with Mesquite Sap Design
This jar wears a grey-colored collar embellished with curvilinear and triangular designs.
The clay walls have mild dimples, evidence of their hand-made quality.
- About Vesta Bread
(1912-1976) One of the best known Maricopa potters, Vesta Bread is referenced in the only book to date on Maricopa pottery.This book is titled Dirt For Making Things An Apprenticeship in Maricopa Pottery by Mary Fernald as told to Janet Stoeppelmann.
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