c. 1900-1920

Historic jar with exceptional geometric pattern and elegant form. Jar is unusually thin-walled and is in excellent condition. Original fire cloud. Some ethnographic wear at rim.

size: 11 1/2" high x 13" wide

$ 11,500.00

new price: $ 9,500.00

c. 1885-95

An outstanding San Ildefonso canteen in excellent unrestored condition.

size: 10" tall x 9" wide

Sold

c. 1890

Created by Maximiliana (Anna) Montoya Martinez (1885- 1955), sister of Maria Martinez. This is a very fine classic San Ildefonso jar with concave base and flaring shoulder. Very nicely painted top portion in a floral design, painted by Anna's husband, Crescencio Montoya (1879- 1918). Old museum collection number on base.

size: 9" high, 11 1/2" diameter

$ 8,500.00

new price: $ 6,500.00

c. 1915-1920

A beautiful storage jar in wonderful condition. Typical Zia design including 4 birds.

size: 13 ½" tall x 15" wide

$ 29,500.00

new price: $ 24,500.00

c. 1900

A large Cochiti canteen with floral design; hemp hanger.

size: 11 ½" W x 10" tall

$ 4,800.00

new price: $ 3,800.00

c. 1880’s

A large Hopi Pollaca Stew Bowl, in excellent condition.

size: 14 3/4" wide x 5 1/2" tall

$ 12,000.00

new price: $ 8,500.00

date: c. 1920 - 1930

Classic Zia Pottery Canteen with leather straps.

EX: Park Studio Collection. Park Rapids, Minnesota. (See sticker.) Marked in pencil $ 4.50.

size: 9 3/4 " high by 11 " wide.

SOLD

c. 1920’s

Acoma jar that has been used by an Acoma family for many years. Concave base.

size: 10 inches high by 11 inches wide.

$ 3,900.00

new price: $ 3,500.00

c. 1900

Polychrome painted bowl in excellent condition, with an undulating classic Zia design in a band around the upper half of the bowl.

size: 5 1/2" high, 11" dia.

$ 5,500.00

new price: $ 5,000.00

c. 1920-1930

Polychrome water jar with Spiral of Life design. Very pleasing colors with concave base.

size: 10" high by 11-1/2" diameter.

$ 5,000.00

new price: $ 4,600.00

1988

Jody Folwell's large incised bowl depicts abstract design and surface texture. To remind the viewer of the original nature of the clay, she allowed the lip of the jar to crackle randomly in the fire.

size: 10” x 10”

$ 18,000.00

c. 1890

Two Color water jar with low shoulder, and unique designs of feathers attached to medallions. Having a red under body band.

size: 11" wide x 8.5" high

SOLD

early 20th century

Hopi Polychrome Bowl

size: 6" x 11" x 11"

sold

c. 1920
Classic geometric Acoma design
size: 9 1/2" H x 12" diameter

$ 9,500.00

new price: $ 8,000.00

Polychrome Acoma Jar

c. 1930

Painted with geometric and foliate designs.

size: 12"wide x 8 1/2"tall

$ 6,500.00

new price: $ 5,000.00

c. 1300

Ancient Casas Grandes Jar.

Black on Buff with red clay pigment

size: 8 34/” tall x 9 3/4” wide

$ 4,500.00

new price: $ 3,500.00

c. 1930

Geometric designs with two pair of birds.

size: 9 " H x 11" D

$ 7,500.00

c 1625 - 1675 AD

An extremely rare Matsaki olla, beautiful form and design. Restoration. See file (disclosure)
Ex A Piece of the Past Collection
Ex Collins Collection
size; 6 1/2 inches high by 10 inches width

sold

1987

Dora Tse Pe Pena's Red and Micaceous bowl with applied black bears, one with inset turquoise stone
size: 4.5 x 6"

$ 2,900.00

c. 1875

An early Zuni Water Polychrome Jar with four heartline deer arranged across the midsection, separated by large decorative crooked elements. The upper panel has alternating scroll elements and open field designs with diagonal hatching. Seperating the two panels is a double band at the shoulder with a ceremonial break. The bottom field is made up of opposing stepped elements with eyes. A heavy puki indenture is seen beneath the lower double framing lines and a deep indentation is also formed into the shoulder.

size: 10” tall x 11 ½” wide

SOLD

c.1925

A wonderful geometric Acoma Olla with stylized bird designs.
Size: 11 1/4"d x 9 1/2"h

$ 7,500.00

c. 1940

Zia Polychrome Water Jar with Bird by Serefina Bell. Signed with a Bell.

size: 10 1/2"d x 8"h

Sold

Santo Domingo Pueblo Jar. C. 1920.
Very fine condition.

size: 8 1/2" tall x 9" wide

Sold

c. 1900-1910

A very nice polychrome olla with floral design and scalloped top.

size: 8" wide 7" high

Sold

c. 1965

A long necked jar by San Ildefonso potter Rose Gonzales. A cloud design surrounds the neck and an avanyu circles the midsection of the vase. First Prize winner Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial 1965. Excellent condition.

12" tall x 8" wide

$ 3600.00

c. 1970

A large hand coiled Hopi seed jar made by Fannie Nampeyo with a traditional migration pattern design. Excellent condition.

6" tall x 12" wide

$ 8,500.00

c. 1910

A 4 color Acoma Water Jar covered with an array of curvilinear and geometric designs. Arched and floral elements flank a central rectangle with solid and hatched steps and a diagonal ladder design. On the sides of the panel are paddle shaped elements with dotted edging.

Size: 12 "wide x 11" tall

$ 8,000.00

c. 1970

Two large red and black polished jars by Santa Clara potter Margaret Tafoya. Each with bear paw impressions marking the four directions. Signed ‘Margaret" on each base. Both vases have been drilled on the bottom for lamp use. Excellent condition.

each 13-1/4" tall x 10" wide

$ 9,000.00 each jar

c. 1890-1900

A Large Zia Polychrome Olla with four birds. The Zia Birds are framed within decorative stepped triangles with dark domed caps. There is one small hole drilled in the side.

Size: 14 1/2” wide x 17” tall

$ 14,500.00

c. 1900

An Acoma Water Jar with three design panels and complex hachured designs. The central painted panel having diamond forms with a checkerboard. Both the top and bottom panels comprised of geometric and curved designs with diagonal hatching. Thin walled with an red painted interior rim and base.

size: 11 1/2” x 12 ½” wide

$ 7,000.00

c. 1900

A Zia Water Olla with two opposing birds and two opposed flowers. This three color jar has two Zia birds standing atop two large, elaborate flowers with leaves, berries and petals. The painted birds and flowers extend up the neck to the rim. There is a wiped red band beneath the bottom framing lines. A collection number is written under this band. See File

size: 11 1/2” x 12 ¾ wide

Ex: Dick Howard Collection

Ex. Denver Art Museum

Publ: Pueblo Crafts, Ruth Underhill, Dept. Of The Interior, 1948

The Story of Pueblo Pottery, Wormington/Neal, Denver Museum of Natural History, 1951

$ 14,000.00

c.1890-1900

Acoma Water Jar with a complex design of interlocking geometric elements. Three prominent zig zag bands circle the body. Woven within the bands are checkerboards, leaf designs, and cross elements. One small patched hole on the side and a chip on the rim.

Size: 13 1/4 wide x 11 1/2"

Sold

c.1890-1910

Acoma Pueblo Polychrome Water Jar dating to the period of 1890-1910. This water jar shows skilled construction and decorative technique. Excellent condition.

Size: 10-1/2 H" x 11" W

new price: $ 6,750.00

c. 1880's

Very large and deep dough bowl decorated in a cream slip with black guaco design and a red underbody.Very good condition with evidence of pueblo use.

Size: 18 3/4" wide x 11 3/4' tall

Sold

c. 1930

A very fine Santo Domingo Jar with ceremonial breaks in the upper and lower double banded black lines.

size: 10 1/4" H x 10" W

Sold

c. 1920

A very fine Acoma polychrome jar with thin wall. Geometric decoration and two bands of stylized birds.

size: 10 1/2" high, 12" diameter

Sold

c. 1920 - 1930

A very unusual five color polychrome olla, the design also exhibits a unique handling with the birds tails terminating in the curved rainbow bands.

Ex Mackley Collection

size: 9 5/8" tall x 12" wide

Sold

c. 1920

Very fine condition, polychrome.

size: 8 1/2" tall x 9" wide

Sold

c. 1987

A very meticulously hand formed vase by Nancy Youngblood with 37 precisely spaced ribs. 

5 1/2" wide, 4" high

Sold

c. 1900-1910

Surrounding the top opening of this low shouldered Zia Olla is a zig zag design with reflected figures. Directly below is a wide orange slipped band Bordered in black. The lower portion of the vessel is unclipped.

Size: 18" widex 11" tall

SOLD

c. 1920

Classic geometric Acoma design.

size: 9 1/2" H x 12" diameter

$ 9,500.00

new price: $ 7,500.00

c. 1910-1920

Zia Storage Jar (Olla) with Birds.

size: 17" high, 16 1/2" diameter

SOLD

A large Zia Storage Olla from the first part of the 20th century. The buff colored body decorated with arched forms with dots and slanted parallelograms around the waist of the vessel. A crescent band with raindrops frame the top and bottom of the design panel.

Size: 18" wide x 11 1/2" tall

SOLD

c. 1900

A rainbow band undulating about the body separates three registers of parrots and other bird figures, all shown with flowering plants.
ex: Dwight Lanmon collection

size: 10 ' high by 11 ' wide

$ 15,000.00

new price: SOLD

c. 1890-1910

Acoma Pueblo Polychrome Water Jar dating to the period of 1890-1910. This water jar shows skilled construction and decorative technique. Excellent condition.

10 1/2" wide, 11" high

$7,500.00

c.2005

A Cochiti Pueblo water olla with with corn plant designs by Virgil Ortiz. Traditionally hand coiled and slipped with natural clay pigment and painted with wild spinach paint. Dated on the bottom and signed by the artist.

9 1/4" tall x  8 3/4" wide

$4,200.00

c. 2004

A water olla from Cochiti Pueblo made by Virgil Ortiz. Traditionally hand coiled, decorated with natural slips and pigment and traditionally fired. Dated and signed by the artist.

9 1/2" tall x 9" wide

$4,200.00