Special Value Offer: Polished Black San Ildefonso Jar [SOLD]

Special Value Offer: This jar is being offered at a price of $450 from the original price of $750 because it is missing the lid.

Anita Martinez was a daughter of Adam and Santana Martinez.  She, too, was a potter and a very good one.  She made quite a variety of shapes of pottery and often put lids on her small jars, such as this one.  Because there are some abrasions around the rim, it is highly suspected that this jar had a lid in the past and does not have it now.

I failed to take notice of this at the time I purchased this jar.  I was aware that Anita made lids for her small jars as I purchased many such jars with lids from her in the 1980s.  This jar was brought in to us by a granddaughter of Popovi Da and I did not examine it properly.

Condition: structurally in very good condition with some abrasions around the rim from wear by a previous lid.

Provenance:  this Polished Black San Ildefonso Jar was purchased from the granddaughter of Popovi Da of San Ildefonso Pueblo

Recommended Reading:  Pueblo Indian Pottery, 750 Artist Biographies by Gregory Schaaf