A Cochiti Horse Figurine with Saddle [SOLD]
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- Category: Figurines
- Origin: Cochiti Pueblo, KO-TYIT
- Medium: clay, pigment
- Size: 5-1/8” height x 5-3/4” length x 2-1/4” width
- Item # C3688.75 SOLD
Inez Ortiz is an extremely talented potter whether making storyteller figurines or animals. She seems to have the knack to fashion the clay to perfection. This horse with its hairy mane, black feet, textured tail and black saddle borders on humorous to serious. It is signed and dated on the bottom of the horse figurine's hooves with the artists Natvie name Mapuwana (Wild Rose) Cochiti Pueblo 98 (see below).
Inez, as she now signs her pottery, is a daughter of Seferina Ortiz, sister of Virgil Ortiz and mother of Lisa Holt. She has remained with traditional Cochiti Pueblo designs and shapes much like her mother and unlike that of Virgil and Lisa.
Condition: original condition
Recommended Reading: The Pueblo Storyteller: Development of a Figurative Ceramic Tradition by Barbara Babcock, et al.
Provenance: from the collection of a family from Corrales, New Mexico
- Category: Figurines
- Origin: Cochiti Pueblo, KO-TYIT
- Medium: clay, pigment
- Size: 5-1/8” height x 5-3/4” length x 2-1/4” width
- Item # C3688.75 SOLD
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