Sold for $16,250

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Lot Description

Large Cochiti Pottery Storage Jar

ca 1920

height 17 inches x diameter 18 inches

Included is a note of identification from the late Francis Harlow, renowned authority on the evolution of Puebloan ceramic styles.

Published:
Spirits in the Art (Hanson 1994: 215, plate 216)

The horizontal scratches on the neck were caused during use. It was standard practice to keep mice and other vermin out of a storage jar by inverting a bowl over the top. Such bowl covers abraded the design, but left an interesting ethnographic record of how the pot was used (Hanson 1994: 215).

Condition Report

Nothing fluoresces under blacklight; has wear along rim and neck; light scattered surface pitting and light splatter of painted scattered along body; smaall vertical hairline crack on interior, does not go through to the outside.

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