This seated female figure supports two children on her lap. One child is holding a soccer ball. Five oval-shaped turquoise looking stones adorn her necklace, while another poses as a turquoise ring on her left hand. An embroidered red, green and black belt bisects her black dress.
Description | This seated female figure supports two children on her lap. One child is holding a soccer ball. Five oval-shaped turquoise looking stones adorn her necklace, while another poses as a turquoise ring on her left hand. An embroidered red, green and black belt bisects her black dress. |
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About the Artist | (Born 1966) Diane learned to make storyteller figures from Joseph Fragua. This Jemez potter is named in Pueblo and Navajo Contemporary Potter and Directory of Artists by Guy Berger and Nancy Schiffer and Southern Pueblo Pottery 2,000 Artist Biographies by Gregory Schaaf. |
Culture | American Indian |
Medium | Hand-coiled polychrome pottery |
Size | 4" height X 3 7/8" length (to the tip of her mocs) X 1 3/4" across |
Signed | "D. Lucero Jemez" written in white slip underneath her |
Date of creation | Circa 1990 |
Condition | Excellent |
Provenance | Consigned by a CCat collector of storytellers |