Santa Clara Pueblo Red Ribbed Melon Jar [SOLD]

Angela Baca has long been associated with her ability to produce beautiful red and black jars with melon ribs. Works in the melon style are first coil-formed with a large diameter coil and allowed to dry to a leather-hard state. They are then carved with the distinctive ribs. After carving, the work is slipped in iron-bearing red slip, intricately stone-polished and then fired in either a smothered, reduction atmosphere to achieve the superb black finish or in an oxidizing atmosphere to achieve the red finish.

This red melon jar features 32 ribs, each of which is stone polished. The depressions between the ribs are in matte finish. The underside of the jar is signed Angela Baca.

Condition: It is an older piece but is in original excellent condition.

Provenance: from the collection of a family from Virginia

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