Acoma Polychrome Jar

with concave base, compressed globular body and slightly flaring rim, finely painted in red, burnished orange and dark brown against a cream slip, the mid-body with abstract flowers or seed pods alternating with triangles, each enclosing scalloped elements, the neck with slanted leaf forms.

Collected at Acoma in 1884 for the Bureau of American Ethnology by Colonel James Stevenson (BAE no. 110225), and illustrated in the acession book.

Lucy Peabody

By descent from her mother, Alicia Irvine III (d. 1947), Denver, CO

Hood, 1995, The Art of America's Southwest Indians, p. 49

Lanmon and Harlow, 2013, The Pottery of Acoma Pueblo, fig. 10.19

Small chip to the rim, otherwise excellent condition.
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