Special Value Offer: Cochiti Pueblo Deep Bowl [SOLD]

Special Value Offer: The owner of this item has authorized a price reduction of 20% from $1175 to $935.

Cochiti, at the turn of the last century, made very little pottery for local use, importing it instead from Acoma, Zuni and Zia Pueblos.  What pottery the potters were making was mostly limited to figurative type—effigy vessels and human and animal figurines.  Production of functional pottery vessels increased later in the 20^th century as potters discovered that tourists and collectors were interested in bowls and jars as well as figurines.

This bowl appears to be from the mid-20^th century and does not show evidence that it was used in the pueblo before being sold.  It was probably made to be sold.  It is slipped in traditional Cochiti bentonite white slip and decorated with the black pigment made from boiling the leaves of the Rocky Mountain bee plant.

The design elements suspended from the framing line near the rim appear to be seed pods but could be just design that appealed to the potter.

Condition: very good condition

Recommended Reading: A River Apart: The Pottery of Cochiti and Santo Domingo Pueblos.  This book is currently not available from Adobe Gallery.

Provenance: from the extensive collection of a Santa Fe resident who is unfortunately moving to another town and found it necessary to greatly reduce her collection.