SET Pueblo Indian Pottery, BOTH Vol I and Vol II

This exquisite two-volume set showcases 100 hand-colored plates featuring selected specimens of Pueblo pottery from the Indian Arts Fund collection in Santa Fe, which includes over nineteen hundred pieces. Published by C. Szwedzicki in Nice, France, between 1933 and 1936, the set includes titles and introductory pages printed in red and black, with half-titles and parallel text in both English and French. The text is stitched, while the plates are unbound as originally issued, presented in two cloth boxes with morocco lettering-pieces, each housing 50 plates.

Volume I offers a comprehensive introduction to the ceramic art of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest, followed by an overview of pottery from various pueblos, including Taos and Picuris, San Juan (Ohkay Owingeh), Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Cochiti, Santo Domingo, and Santa Ana. Detailed descriptions accompany the specific pottery examples illustrated in the plates.

Volume II continues the exploration, following the geographical distribution of Pueblo villages further west and focusing on the pottery of the remaining four pottery-making pueblos—Tsia (Zia), Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi. Both volumes were issued in limited editions of 750 copies, with this particular set including Volume I as copy #187 and Volume II as copy #92. The plates are in excellent original condition, though the cloth boxes show some wear but remain intact.

While Volume I is more commonly available, Volume II is much rarer. These volumes are sold exclusively as a complete SET.

Condition: plates are in very good condition and only the covers shows wear

Provenance: this SET Pueblo Indian Pottery, BOTH Vol I and Vol II, are from a collector in Cincinnati, OH

Recommended Reading: Pottery of the Pueblos of New Mexico 1700-1940 by Jonathan Batkin

As an example, plates in Vollume I are the following (click any to view):

Plate 1. Crude bowl of unbaked clay, mixed with the fiber of shredded juniper bark. Basketmaker period, 100 to 300 A. D.

Plate 2. Jar with geometric design in black on white, from New Mexico circa 1200 A. D.

Plate 3. Bowl with red and black geometric design on buff, from Arizona, circa 1000 A. D.

Plate 4. Conventional bird design from the interior of a food bowl. Sikyatki, Arizona, circa. 1500 A. D.

Plate 5. Taos Pueblo storage jar of micaceous clay, with lid. Recent.

Plate 6. Picuris antique storage jar of micaceous clay with white slip on body.

Plate 7. San Juan antique water jar with polished red slip on upper body.

Plate 8. San Juan antique bowl of the same ware, reinforced with rawhide.

Plate 9. Santa Clara antique water jar with shoulder band moulded by pressure from within.

Plate 10. Santa Clara antique water jar with shoulder band moulded by pressure from within.

Plate 11. Santa Clara storage jar of recent make.

Plate 12. Santa Clara antique water jar with depressed wavy band

Plate 13. Group of four black pottery vessels.

Plate 14. San Ildefonso antique storage jar with symbols of rainbow, clouds, mountains.*Plate 15. San Ildefonso antique bowl, reinforced by lacing with rawhide. Symbols of terraced clouds, leaves and feathers.

Plate 15. San Ildefonso antique bowl, reinforced by lacing with rawhide. Symbols of terraced clouds, leaves and feathers.

Plate 16. San Ildefonso antique storage jar. Hummingbirds on neck. Terraced mountains are placed below the neck

Plate 17. San Ildefonso antique water jar with symbols of mountains, clouds, rainn, feathers, and bifurcated leaves.

Plate 18. San Ildefonso antique water jar. Raindrops on the rim, the checkered arrangement of fields on the neck, and conventionalized plant forms on the body, are related symbols of fertility.

Plate 19. San Ildefonso antique polychrome water jar with clouds, leaves and birds.

Plate 20. San Ildefonso antique water jar. Fish, seldom used in Pueblo art, are placed below a neck border of clouds, and above leaves and black symbols of rain far off.

Plate 21. Antique water jar with feather and leaf motifs, the latter combined with volutes.

Plate 22. San Ildefonso antique polychrome water jar.

Plate 23. San Ildefonso black-on-red water jar with clouds and lightning.

Plate 24. San Ildefonso typical new pottery. The matte decoration is painted upon the polished surface before firing.

Plate 25. San Ildefonso. Typical designs from antique pottery.

Plate 26. Tesuque Pueblo antique water jar with elaborate designs.

Plate 27. Tesuque Pueblo antique storage jar with neck missing.*Plate 28. Tesuque antique ceremonial jar, with clouds, rain, lightning, mountains, and fertility symbols.

Plate 28. Tesuque antique ceremonial jar, with clouds, rain, lightning, mountains, and fertility symbols.

Plate 29. Tesuque antique storage jar with sun discs, feathers, clouds, and plant symbols.

Plate 30. Tesuque antique water jar with the combination of meander and leaf design, used only at Tesuque.

Plate 31. Tesuque. Typical designs from antique pottery.

Plate 32. Cochiti antique large dough bowl with rain designs.

Plate 33. Cochiti. Antique bowl with geometric design on exterior. Interior device of feathers, rain, and plants, with a cloud border at rim.

Plate 34. Cochiti Pueblo antique water jar without usual red underbody.

Plate 35. Cochiti Pueblo water jar with red underbody.

Plate 36. Cochiti water jar with typical Cochiti designs.

Plate 37. Cochiti. Typical designs from antique pottery.

Plate 38. Santo Domingo antique storage jar with geometric and volute designs.

Plate 39. Santo Domingo antique storage jar with neck reinforced with rawhide thong.

Plate 40.  Santo Domingo antique dough bowl with geometric design.

Plate 41. Santo Domingo antique bowl with interior design of birds and plants.

Plate 42. Santo Domingo water jar of recent make, with bird and plant design.

Plate 43. Santo Domingo water jar with unusual decoration in black and red.

Plate 44. Santo Domingo water jar with orange/red slip.

Plate 45. Santo Domingo typical designs from antique pottery.

Plate 46. Santa Ana antique water jar with typical designs in red partially outlined in black.

Plate 47. Santa Ana antique water jar with typical irregular design in red without outlines.

Plate 48. Santa Ana antique water jar with cloud, rain, leaf, and other symbols.

Plate 49. Santa Ana antique water jar with unusually graceful decoration well executed in black and red.

Plate 50. Santa Ana typical designs from antique pottery.

Volume II list of plates:

Plate 51.  Tsia. Antique storage jar with feather and geometric designs.

Plate 52. Tsia. Antique water jar with bird, plant, and geometric designs in black.

Plate 53. Tsia. Antique water jar with checker designs.

Plate 54. Tsia. Water jar with typical Tsia birds.

Plate 55. Tsia. Antique water jar with unusual design.

Plate 56. Tsia. Antique water jar with "rainbow" band.

Plate 57. Tsia. Water jar with typical Tsia birds and plants.

Plate 58. Tsia. Water jar with typical Tsia plant design.

Plate 59. Tsia. Group of designs from antique Tsia pottery.

Plate 60. Ácoma. Antique water jar of the period 1600-1680, with decoration of lustrous black mineral glaze on red.

Plate 61. Ácoma. Antique water jar of the period 1600-1680, with decoration of red and a black mineral glaze on buff.

Plate 62. Ácoma. Antique water jar, presumably of the period 1600-1680, with decorations of red and a decadent black glaze on orange.

Plate 63. Ácoma. Antique water jar, presumably of the period 1800-1875, with designs in dull black, red and orange.

Plate 64. Ácoma. Antique water jar, presumably of the period 1800-1875.

Plate 65. Ácoma. Water jar of the period of 1875.

Plate 66. Ácoma. Bowl of the period of 1875.

Plate 67. Ácoma. Water jar from Laguna, possibly of Laguna make, with a pre-Columbian design derived from ancient "black on white" pottery.

Plate 68. Ácoma. Water jar with black designs in three bands.

Plate 69. Ácoma. Wate jar with fine details in black, period of 1875-1925.

Plate 70. Ácoma. Water jar with complex geometric design, period of 1875-1925.

Plate 71. Ácoma. Water jar with typical bird and plant motifs.

Plate 72. Ácoma. Typical water jar with complex design, period of 1875-1925.

Plate 73. Ácoma. Water jar with complex design, in which the bird is subordinated, period of 1875-1925.

Plate 74. Ácoma. Double-neck jar with floral design, period of 1900.

Plate 75. Ácoma. Canteen and water jar, period of 1900.

Plate 76. Ácoma. Water jar with geometric design, period of 1900.

Plate 77. Ácoma. Group of bird designs from Ácoma pottery.

Plate 78. Zuñi. Antique water jar with conventional bird and feathers, period of 1600-1700.

Plate 79. Zuñi. Antique water jar, with geometric motifs derived from pre-Columbian ware, period of 1700-1800.

Plate 80. Zuñi. Antique ceremonial water jar, with symbols of frog, tadpole, and dragon fly, used in ritual to produce rain.

Plate 81. Zuñi. Antique water jar, period of 1700-1800.

Plate 82. Zuñi. Water jar with conventionalized birds and geometric design.

Plate 83. Zuñi. Water jar with typical use of hachure.

Plate 84. Zuñi. Food bowl with flaring rim.

Plate 85. Zuñi. Interior of food bowl.

Plate 86. Zuñi. Antique water jar with conventional representation of deer in "house of deer'.

Plate 87. Zuñi. Antique water jar with more profuse grouping of motifs, in which the deer are less conspicuous.

Plate 88. Zuñi. Antique water jar, with conventional birds in band.

Plate 89. Zuñi. Two forms of canteen.

Plate 90. Zuñi. Group of designs from Zuñi pottery.

Plate 91. Hopi. Food bowl from Walpi, with cloud and rain symbols.

Plate 92. Hopi. Ceremonial jar from Walpi, with masked figure of Corn Maiden.

Plate 93. Hopi.  Ceremonial bowl from Walpi with elaborate mask design.

Plate 94. Hopi. Water jar from Hano, period of 1900, with geometric and feather designs derived from pre-Columbian ware.

Plate 95. Hopi. Water jar from Hano with form and decoration typical of the period 1800-1875.

Plate 96. Hopi. Water jar from Hano, of the period 1800-1875, with complex bird and geometric designs.

Plate 97. Hopi. Modern copies of pre-Columbian forms and designs, from Hano.

Plate 98. Hopi. Water jar of Pre-Columbian form and decoration by Nampeyo, period of 1890-1900.

Plate 99. Hopi. Water jar of Pre-Columbian form and decoration by Nampeyo, period of 1890-1900.

Plate 100. Hopi. Group of designs from antique and modern Hopi ware.

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