Acoma Pueblo Jar with Parrot Designs by Marie Z. Chino [SOLD]

Marie Z. Chino was certainly one of the Acoma potters who made particularly important contributions to the art of pottery making in the period following World War II. Chino was making pottery as early as the 1920s. Some of her pieces were among the prizewinners at the first Southwest Indian Fair in 1922.

Chino is considered one of the significant ceramicists at Acoma and was the matriarch of a very talented family of potters. She was one of the women who was inspirational in the movement to revive the use of ancient Mimbres designs on contemporary Acoma pottery.

This jar was constructed in a standard olla shape with a high shoulder, providing a wide canvas for the design. Chino did not divide the design area in bands or sections, rather she left it as one open area in which she could and did place an unencumbered design over the entire vessel.

Two parrots on opposing sides of the jar constitute the central focus of the design. Each one is enclosed under a double rainbow which then swoops down between the parrots providing an area above the rainbows for geometric designs that incorporate rain clouds and rain.

The jar is signed Marie Z. Chino Acoma, N. Mex. It is in original excellent condition.