Lot 30
  • 30

Acomita Polychrome Jar

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • clay
with concave base, compressed globular body and slightly flaring rim, painted in red, white and dark brown against a cream slip, with a frieze of foliate motifs beneath a scalloped band.

Provenance

Probably collected by Colonel James Stevenson for the Bureau of Ethnology, no. 107210, and illustrated in the accession book

Alicia Irvine III (d. 1947), Denver, CO, from her mother, a friend of Lucy Peabody

Acquired from Christopher Selser, Santa Fe, NM in 1993

Literature

Lanmon and Harlow, 2013, The Pottery of Acoma Pueblo, fig. 6.11

Condition

Old crack in the side; spalling on the lower section and underneath base.
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