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This is a superb olla from Cochiti Pueblo, dating to late 1800s, probably 1880s.   It is typically Cochiti in all technical aspects: crystalline-rock temper in the paste, stone-polished, bare-paste underbody, black rim top with red neck interior below the designed area, rag-wiped bentonite slip and black vegetal paints. Even without the specifics of construction and materials, this vessel is positively identifiable as Cochiti in origin.

The fantastic round shape of the pottery vessel, with its widest point at mid-body, suggests the form of many Cochiti jars. The black vegetal design motifs, painted in the traditional Cochiti style, reflect the loose, gestural, almost haphazard organic and free application.

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