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Historic Ohkay Owingeh (San Juan) Pueblo Tall Black on Gray Water Jar - C3783E
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Jun 17th 2016, 12:51pm
This is a traditional San Juan Pueblo olla or water jar with a polished black upper body and polished gray underbody, a style which has been made for centuries. In these jars, the red slip is wiped over the upper two-thirds of the vessel body and the lower one-third left without slip. Both upper and lower portions are then stone polished. When reduction fired, the red changes to black and the tan underbody changes to gray. The interior of the neck is matte finish. It probably dates to circa 1890-1910 period.