Santa Clara Pueblo Buff-on-red Pottery Seed Jar with Upturned Neck by Denny Gutierrez [SOLD]

Artist Denny Gutierrez made a slight modification to placement of the feather design from that seen by most potters from Santa Clara and San Ildefonso.  He placed the feathers at a slight variant from perfectly straight up and down—that is they are slightly angled. He also added stepped designs and small dots between the feather band and the neck of the jar as well as inverted spikes pendant from the bottom of the feather design.  The jar was beautifully burnished and perfectly fired. It is signed Denny Gutierrez Santa Clara and dated ’86.

Denny Gutierrez (1942-present) is the son of Katherine Gutierrez and he has won awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market every year for a decade or more.  Many years he won First Place awards.

Condition: this Santa Clara Pueblo Buff-on-red Pottery Seed Jar with Upturned Neck by Denny Gutierrez is in original condition

Provenance: originally from the collection of a gentleman in Albuquerque. Now from the collection of a client from Virginia to whom we sold it in 2015.

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

Relative Links: Santa Clara Pueblo, Katherine Gutierrez, pottery, Denny Gutierrez