Cochiti Pueblo Pottery Canteen with Lizards [SOLD]

Cochiti Pueblo has a long tradition of making figurative pottery, especially small animals, effigy vessels, storytellers and nacimientos.  From the tradition of making small animals, it was a natural progression to place animals on pottery vessels.  That is what Seferina Ortiz did with this water canteen.  She placed two lizards on the top of the vessel with heads pointed toward the opening of the canteen and a source of water.

The canteen is signed Seferina Ortiz Cochiti, N Mex on the underside.

Condition:  The lizard on the left of the corn  stalk was apparently broken off from the canteen and glued back on with transparent glue.  It is not obtrusive but is visible if examined carefully.

Provenance: ex. coll. Frances Sonnenberg, Santa Fe resident.