Santa Clara Pueblo Black and Sienna Pottery Seed Jar with Lizard and Turquoise by Corn Moquino [SOLD]

This globular pottery seed jar by Santa Clara Pueblo artist Corn Moquino is a combination of stone polish, pictorial, sgraffito, sienna color, turquoise and coral.  Curving around the top is a lizard with bright red (coral) eyes and with an arrow on its body executed in matte sienna and surrounded by a sienna body.  In the middle of the back of the lizard is a turquoise cab. The lizard is crawling on an area of sgraffito etching. The lower half of the jar is stone-polished black.  The artist’s name is inscribed on the underside.

Corn Moquino (1929-2016) was of Zia and Hopi heritage. He married into Santa Clara Pueblo and began making Santa Clara style pottery around 1963. He was one of the earlier potters to employ sgraffito style carving.

Condition:  this Santa Clara Pueblo Black and Sienna Pottery Seed Jar with Lizard and Turquoise by Corn Moquino is in original condition

Provenance:  from the collection of a family from New Jersey in the process of downsizing their collection to facilitate moving to smaller quarters.

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

Relative Links: Zia Pueblo, Hopi Pueblo, Santa Clara Pueblo, Melvin, Martin, Berncie, Southwest Indian Pottery, Cochiti Pueblo, Contemporary Pottery, Corn Moquino