Lot 36
  • 36

Acoma Polychrome Bowl

Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • clay
painted in dark brown against a cream slip, with an encircling frieze of arching triangles, above and below; the interior with reddish-brown slip.  

Provenance

Acquired from Dewey Galleries, Santa Fe, NM in 2000

Literature

Lanmon and Harlow, 2013, The Pottery of Acoma Pueblo, fig. 11.11

Condition

Two vertical cracks on sides; the exterior restored to cover the cracks. Stable.
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