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**Originally Listed At $3000**
Native American, southwestern United States, New Mexico, Acoma Pueblo or Zuni, ca. 16th to 17th century CE. This is a massive plainware pottery storage jar or olla vessel with a broad neck and deep interior, all in superb condition. The jar rests on a rounded base, likely for burying slightly in the ground to stay upright. The walls are slightly carinated near the base, then swell outward and up to a taper neck and flared rim. The vessel was formed by coiling and scraping to a smooth surface then fired, with nice dark firing cloud patterns across the plain surface. Large pottery vessels such as this were for utilitarian storage or cooking containers. This example is well preserved with a ritualistic "kill hole" in the lower base area. Size: 16" W x 18" H (40.6 cm x 45.7 cm); 19" H (48.3 cm) on included custom stand.
To create this vessel the coil and scrape method may have been used in conjunction with the technique involving the use of a wooden paddle and anvil to draw the walls upward. The "anvil" made of stone or wood is held inside the pot while a paddle beats the outer surface into shape against the anvil which allowed a very thin, but strong walls.
For a similar example of this type of pottery plainware, please see the Brooklyn Museum's website, accession number 02.257.2355 and 02.257.2366.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This item falls under the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act and is not eligible for international shipping. Native American, Alaska Native, & Native Hawaiian objects are only eligible to ship within the United States.
Provenance: Private Vero Beach, Florida, USA collection, acquired from Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA in 2000
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
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#170917
Native American, southwestern United States, New Mexico, Acoma Pueblo or Zuni, ca. 16th to 17th century CE. This is a massive plainware pottery storage jar or olla vessel with a broad neck and deep interior, all in superb condition. The jar rests on a rounded base, likely for burying slightly in the ground to stay upright. The walls are slightly carinated near the base, then swell outward and up to a taper neck and flared rim. The vessel was formed by coiling and scraping to a smooth surface then fired, with nice dark firing cloud patterns across the plain surface. Large pottery vessels such as this were for utilitarian storage or cooking containers. This example is well preserved with a ritualistic "kill hole" in the lower base area. Size: 16" W x 18" H (40.6 cm x 45.7 cm); 19" H (48.3 cm) on included custom stand.
To create this vessel the coil and scrape method may have been used in conjunction with the technique involving the use of a wooden paddle and anvil to draw the walls upward. The "anvil" made of stone or wood is held inside the pot while a paddle beats the outer surface into shape against the anvil which allowed a very thin, but strong walls.
For a similar example of this type of pottery plainware, please see the Brooklyn Museum's website, accession number 02.257.2355 and 02.257.2366.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This item falls under the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act and is not eligible for international shipping. Native American, Alaska Native, & Native Hawaiian objects are only eligible to ship within the United States.
Provenance: Private Vero Beach, Florida, USA collection, acquired from Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA in 2000
All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.
A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.
We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.
#170917
Condition
Kill hole in lower body. Chip and loss to rim, otherwise body is intact and choice. Nice coloration and smoke clouds.
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16th C. Acoma Pueblo Pottery Olla, ex-Morningstar
$1,147.50
$2,700
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