Historic Acoma Small Polychrome Highly Decorated Jar [SOLD]

In traditional Acoma Pueblo style, this jar is filled almost completely with designs.  The potter chose stylized parrots as her main design concept and then filled the remainder of the area with other bird and geometric designs.  

The pair of interlocking orange curved items are parrots beaks with their body and tail feathers executed in black on white. The small orange element with no black outline represents two birds with hooked beaks.  A third bird design is the black element with a curved feather on its head, a white eye and two small black items at the end of its beak.

The triangle with fine lines is host to a black element for which I have no identification, but the triangle in the same area that is pendant from the rim, with a white eye, also is a bird element. There are double cloud elements which are easily identifiable. Overall, the historic pottery jar was exquisitely designed and painted. It dates to circa 1940s.

Condition: this Historic Acoma Small Polychrome Highly Decorated Jar is in very good condition

Provenance:  This jar was part of a collection of the Jacob Barth family.  Mr. Barth’s father, Solomon Barth, had a trading post and general merchandise store called Barth Mercantile in St. Johns, Arizona, around the turn of the last century (1800s).  Some of the Barth collection was given to the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. Other items were retained by the family.

Recommended Reading: Acoma & Laguna Pottery by Rick Dillingham