Acoma Pueblo Black on White Pottery Jar with Lightning Design by Marie Zieu Chino [SOLD]

This pottery jar by Marie Z. Chino of Acoma Pueblo, of course, is as magnificent as all of her work.  She was a master potter and never produced anything of lesser quality, but only the best she could achieve.  The jar sits straight and level, has a burnished white slip and artistically executed lightning design around the surface.  It is signed on the underside M. Z. Chino Acoma, N. M.

Much praise has been bestowed on Marie Z. Chino for the magnificent pottery she made in the fifty years she devoted to the craft and the praise is certainly earned. Chino was a master potter and it is understandable why collectors admire her work so enthusiastically. She 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.

Chino is considered one of the significant ceramicists at Acoma and was the matriarch of a very talented family of potters. She is best known for her black-on-white pottery.  Along with Lucy Lewis and Sarah Garcia she led the revival of the ancient pottery forms of the ancestral pueblo 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.

Condition: this Acoma Pueblo Black on White Pottery Jar with Lightning Design by Marie Zieu Chino is in very good condition

Provenance: from the collection of an Albuquerque resident

Recommended Reading: Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery by Rick Dillingham