Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico
1920s
Ceramic, cream slip, mineral pigment
Height 7¼ in (18.4 cm); diameter 9½ in (24.1 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Rio Rancho, NM
Cochiti Pueblo pottery of the early twentieth century occupies a distinctive place in the Rio Grande ceramic tradition, characterized by its cream to buff slip ground and bold black geometric decoration organized in registers across the vessel body. The globular form with wide shoulder and slightly constricted neck is a shape well suited to domestic storage use, and the bold visual scale of the decoration reflects the Cochiti tendency toward large, confident geometric elements that read clearly across the full surface of the vessel. This pot carries scallop or petal forms at the shoulder, diamond and angular geometric elements on the lower body, and horizontal banding that divides the composition into distinct visual registers.
The cream slip ground retains a warm surface variation consistent with hand-prepared Cochiti clay of the 1920s, and the black mineral pigment is applied with the direct, unhurried line work characteristic of Rio Grande Pueblo ceramic painting of this period. The bold scallop forms at the shoulder are among the most recognizable decorative elements in early twentieth century Cochiti production, and their confident execution here reflects a potter working within a well-established visual tradition. The Rio Rancho private collection provenance is consistent with Pueblo material collected through central New Mexico channels.
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Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico
1920s
Ceramic, cream slip, mineral pigment
Height 7¼ in (18.4 cm); diameter 9½ in (24.1 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Rio Rancho, NM
Cochiti Pueblo pottery of the early twentieth century occupies a distinctive place in the Rio Grande ceramic tradition, characterized by its cream to buff slip ground and bold black geometric decoration organized in registers across the vessel body. The globular form with wide shoulder and slightly constricted neck is a shape well suited to domestic storage use, and the bold visual scale of the decoration reflects the Cochiti tendency toward large, confident geometric elements that read clearly across the full surface of the vessel. This pot carries scallop or petal forms at the shoulder, diamond and angular geometric elements on the lower body, and horizontal banding that divides the composition into distinct visual registers.
The cream slip ground retains a warm surface variation consistent with hand-prepared Cochiti clay of the 1920s, and the black mineral pigment is applied with the direct, unhurried line work characteristic of Rio Grande Pueblo ceramic painting of this period. The bold scallop forms at the shoulder are among the most recognizable decorative elements in early twentieth century Cochiti production, and their confident execution here reflects a potter working within a well-established visual tradition. The Rio Rancho private collection provenance is consistent with Pueblo material collected through central New Mexico channels.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
