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Storage jar
Native American, Kewa (Santo Domingo Pueblo)
1920–30
Object Place: Santo Domingo, New Mexico, United States, Southwest
Medium/Technique
Earthenware with slip paint and rawhide
Dimensions
Overall: 35.6cm (14in.); Diam (Overall): 48.9cm (19 1/4in.)
Credit Line
Otis Norcross Fund
Accession Number1998.4
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionLarge bulbous jar with wide opening, slight neck, and small concave base. Jar girdled in rawhide binding that zigzags between an upper and lower rawhide band. Jar painted with black over cream in two wide bands to create a strong negative/positive composition; the top band is composed of thirteen cream circles separated by narrow cream slashes, and the lower band is a zigzag frieze of slender, bisected leaves. Red slip covers the remaining 40 percent of the vessel
Provenance1920s, said to have been acquired at a trading post, Taos, NM [see note]. December 4, 1997, anonymous ("property of a North Carolina private collector") sale, Sotheby's, New York, lot 194, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 18, 1998)
NOTE: According to information in the Sotheby's catalogue.
NOTE: According to information in the Sotheby's catalogue.