Santa Clara Pueblo Polychrome Pottery Seed Jar by Minnie Vigil [SOLD]

Minnie Vigil’s talent in rendering a two-dimensional design on a three-dimensional form is evident upon viewing this Santa Clara Pueblo polychrome seed jar. On the shoulder of the jar she painted two sets of symmetrical elements, both of which contain cloud designs. One of the sets is a meticulously painted feather design with a rain cloud  in the center. The other set features a cloud design within a series of geometric forms.

Minnie Vigil was born in 1931 and is one of a family of talented potters. She and her sisters, Lois Gutierrez de la Cruz, Thelma Talache, and Gloria (Goldenrod) Garcia, are potters of distinction. Minnie has won awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market for years in recognition of her fine workmanship. She specializes in Polychrome wares. Some of her pottery is slipped in red clay and stone polished and some is slipped in matte tan clay and not polished. This seed jar is of the latter style. It is signed on the bottom “Minnie, Santa Clara”

Condition: this Santa Clara Pueblo Polychrome Pottery Seed Jar by Minnie Vigil is in very good condition

Provenance: From the collection of a client who is downsizing to a smaller home and has found it necessary to reduce her pottery collection

Recommended Reading: Pueblo Indian Pottery: 750 Artist Biographies, C. 1800-Present by Gregory and Angie Schaaf

Relative Links: Southwest Indian Pottery, Minnie Vigil, Santa Clara Pueblo, Contemporary Pottery