Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
1890s
Ceramic, cream slip, mineral pigment
Height 5¼ in (13.3 cm); width 4 in (10.2 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, NM
Laguna Pueblo pottery of the late nineteenth century shares stylistic elements with both Acoma and Zuni wares, reflecting the close geographic and cultural relationships among the western Pueblo communities, while maintaining its own distinctive decorative vocabulary. Canteens of this type, with a flattened globular body and short lateral spout, were produced for both domestic use and outside trade and represent one of the more formally distinctive vessel forms in the Laguna repertoire. This example carries bold black geometric decoration on a cream slip ground, with large interlocking fret and key forms, diamond elements, and zigzag bands organized across the full surface of the vessel.
The lower body is darkened, providing a strong visual base that anchors the geometric composition above, a treatment common in Laguna and Acoma canteens of this period. The decoration is executed with confident, unhurried line work, and the cream slip retains the warm tonal variation characteristic of mineral-based pigments applied to a hand-polished surface. The Santa Fe private collection provenance is consistent with Pueblo material collected through established Southwestern channels during the active market period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico
1890s
Ceramic, cream slip, mineral pigment
Height 5¼ in (13.3 cm); width 4 in (10.2 cm)
Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, NM
Laguna Pueblo pottery of the late nineteenth century shares stylistic elements with both Acoma and Zuni wares, reflecting the close geographic and cultural relationships among the western Pueblo communities, while maintaining its own distinctive decorative vocabulary. Canteens of this type, with a flattened globular body and short lateral spout, were produced for both domestic use and outside trade and represent one of the more formally distinctive vessel forms in the Laguna repertoire. This example carries bold black geometric decoration on a cream slip ground, with large interlocking fret and key forms, diamond elements, and zigzag bands organized across the full surface of the vessel.
The lower body is darkened, providing a strong visual base that anchors the geometric composition above, a treatment common in Laguna and Acoma canteens of this period. The decoration is executed with confident, unhurried line work, and the cream slip retains the warm tonal variation characteristic of mineral-based pigments applied to a hand-polished surface. The Santa Fe private collection provenance is consistent with Pueblo material collected through established Southwestern channels during the active market period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
