Taos Pueblo Micaceous Bean Pot [SOLD]

It has been said that there is no better taste than beans cooked in a micaceous pottery bean pot.  Put the pot over an open flame in a wood-burning kitchen stove and patiently wait for the results.  Beans are a staple food in New Mexico and few traditional meals are served without beans or frijoles, as they are known.

Taos pottery is heavy in mica and it is the mica that acts as a tempering agent thus not requiring any addition of a tempering agent.  It is pure Taos clay and nothing more.

This jar shows evidence of having been used on an open flame stove.  Notice the dark two inches of the lower part of the jar, the section that would have been below the top of the stove.  It is smoked black from being exposed to the flames and the upper part of the jar is not smoked because it was only exposed to the heat.

Condition: an extremely small rim chip is the only damage

Provenance: from the Balcomb family collection

Recommended Reading: Pottery of the Pueblos of New Mexico 1700-1940 by Jonathan Batkin.  This book is currently not available from Adobe Gallery