Acoma Black-on-white Canteen with a Mimbres Deer [SOLD]

Marie Z. Chino was certainly one of the Acoma potters who made particularly important contributions to the art of pottery making in the period following World War II. Chino was making pottery as early as the 1920s. Some of her pieces were among the prizewinners at the first Southwest Indian Fair in 1922.

Chino is considered one of the significant ceramicists at Acoma and was the matriarch of a very talented family of potters. She was one of the women who was inspirational in the movement to revive the use of ancient Mimbres designs on contemporary Acoma pottery.

This miniature canteen features a Mimbres-style Deer as the sole item of design.

Condition:  The canteen is structurally in excellent condition.  A small amount of the white slip is missing from the bottom where someone placed masking tape in the past.

Provenance:  from the collection of Katherine H. Rust

Recommended Reading: Acoma and Laguna Pottery by Rick Dillingham