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Zuni Pueblo Nineteenth Century Polychrome Olla - 16208
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Aug 30th 2016, 3:44pm
This is a superb nineteenth century vessel, dating to the last quarter of the 1800s. This olla has many distinctive Zuni design elements: the heart-line deer, spiral volute with fine-line embellishments and the "sunflower" rosette. The underbody is concave, as is typical of all ollas, or water jars dating after 1700. The base is slipped in brown, with distinctive flexure at the uppermost edge of the underbody, as well as a black-slipped, unpolished neck interior and rim top. The white slip is stone-polished with mineral-paint designs. The uppermost framing line is worked in black, overlaying the geometric/spiral volute fine-line elements worked in black and red.