Szwedzicki Print of a Historic Tesuque Pueblo Pottery Jar [SOLD]
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- Category: Original Prints
- Origin: Western Artists
- Medium: Print
Plate 28 of the portfolio - Size: 14” x 10-3/4” plate size;
15-1/2” x 18-7/8” framed - Item # 25772A SOLD
In 1933, C. Szwedzicki of Nice, France, published a set of 50 pottery images in color from specimens in the collection of the Indian Arts Fund of Santa Fe, New Mexico. This group was issued as Volume I of several volumes to be published later on other subjects. Only 750 copies of this volume were printed. The portfolio was titled Pueblo Indian Pottery. The 50 individual plates of pottery from nine pueblos were combined with a booklet and encased in a hard bound folio.
This image is Plate 28 of the portfolio. It is a Tesuque Pueblo jar. The explanation provided by Szwedzicki in the portfolio is “Antique ceremonial jar, with clouds, rain, lightning, mountains, and fertility symbols. At the base is ‘Avanyu,’ the mythical horned serpent, guardian of water sources, with a wavy water symbol in his zig-zag body, and horn showing at extreme right. Diameter 10 inches”
Condition: this Szwedzicki Print of a Historic Tesuque Pueblo Pottery Jar appears to be in very good condition
Recommended Reading: Pottery of the Pueblos of New Mexico 1700-1940 by Jonathan Batkin.
Provenance: from the collection of a client from California
Relative Links: C. Szwedzicki, pottery, image, Tesuque Pueblo, Antique ceremonial jar
- Category: Original Prints
- Origin: Western Artists
- Medium: Print
Plate 28 of the portfolio - Size: 14” x 10-3/4” plate size;
15-1/2” x 18-7/8” framed - Item # 25772A SOLD
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