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Stone Polished Black Jar with Twisted Melon Ribs by Angela Baca - C3792D
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Thu, Jul 7th 2016, 4:19pm
Jars with melon ribs are fashioned after melons such as cantaloupe. Whether cantaloupe was the inspiration for such jars is not known but it certainly is suspected. Several potters from Santa Clara Pueblo have in the past made melon jars, but Angela Baca is among the best known for doing so. She is most likely represented in every collection of contemporary pottery with one of her black melon jars, the style and shape that has been associated with her since the 1960s. She was quite likely the first potter to produce them.