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The Aguilar sisters were recognized as master potters long before they created the bold black and black and red designs we attribute to them today.  Their early works were traditional Santo Domingo Polychrome in design and layout but were among the finest being produced at the pueblo in the late 1800s and very early 1900s.  Their handling of the design style, their precision with paints, and the overall geometrics were unequalled. 

Both sisters excelled at building a jar to an elegant shape with the body being beautifully round and bulbous and rising to a long graceful neck.  The neck on this jar could be compared to the beautiful long, thin and graceful neck of a Victorian lady as presented in The New Yorker in the 1920s.

Read more about this Kewa pottery here.